A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'DESHIMA ISLAND' DISH, TOGETHER WITH A JAPANESE VERSION OF THE SAME DISH.

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period / Edo Period.

Each dish depicting three figures and a bull in the foreground of various buildings around a harbour, within a washed-blue wave border on the flat rim, 19.5 - 20cm diameter. (2)

Provenance: from an English private collection.

清康熙 / 江戶時期 青花繪出島人物山水圖紋碟兩件

來源：英國私人收藏。

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).

It is exceedingly rare to be able to bring together both a Chinese and Japanese version of the same scene. A Japanese Arita dish painted with a similar landscape included in the 'Exhibition Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware', Hong Kong, 1984, Catalogue, no. 65 A Chinese example 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.

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