Bidspirit auction | Chinese Export European Subject Plate

Chinese Export European Subject Plate - Chinese export European subject porcelain plate for the Dutch market, Qianlong ca. 1750. The center painted in famille rose with an amorous couple wearing scant classical drapery and seated beneath trees with a pair of birds painted en grisaille flying above. In the distance, a ship flying Dutch flags sits on a turquoise sea. The rims with a gilt trellis pattern reserved with four panels of iron-red Chinese landscapes alternating with four panels of pink floral sprays. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, ”China for the West, ” Vol. I, pg. 196, no. 193. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, ”Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection, ” 30 January 1985, Lot 116; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. Diameter: 9 in. Condition: There are no cracks or restorations. A few minute frits to the rim. Little to no surface wear. some small glazing flaws to the blue of the male figure's robes.