A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'SCHEVENINGEN' DISH

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period

清康熙 青花席凡寧根泊岸圖盤

Painted to the interior with a landscape scene composed of rolling hills and European figures and buildings, the rim with a stylised wave border pattern

19.7cm diameter

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PROVENANCE:

English Private Collection

英國私人收藏

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NOTE:

The view of this well-known pattern is thought to depict the Dutch coastal town Scheveningen. This scene has also been referred to as Deshima Island, near Nagasaki, which was the V.O.C.'s headquarters in Japan between 1641 and 1862. However, it is more likely to be a Dutch scene depicted by a well-known Dutch Delft pottery painter Frederick van Frytom (1652-1702).

A comparable dish is in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, illustrated by William R. Sargeant in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 132, no. 42.