1596 Antique Dutch-decorated Chinese, Kangxi or early Yongzheng, large circular dish, circa 1720-1730,

Description:

1596 Antique Dutch-decorated Chinese, Kangxi or early Yongzheng, large circular dish, circa 1720-1730,

Period:1720 & Redecoration 1720

Size: 365mm
Code: 4000

Provenance:

– Bonhams 2026

• Peter and Mary White Collection
• Robert McPherson Antiques, 2005

Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites’ House, Vol.3, 2022, p.125

Reference:
Espir, Helen. European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, 1700–1830. London/Lisbon: Jorge Welsh Books, 2005.

 

A Dutch-decorated Chinese, Kangxi or early Yongzheng, large circular dish, circa 1700-1730, the decoration circa 1720-30
Decorated in Holland in ‘fine line’ style with a flower basket on a marbled pedestal flanked by parrots above fruit and vegetables, surrounded by butterflies and other insects, brown-edged rim, 36.2cm diam

For a discussion of decoration in ‘fine-line’ style see H. Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, 2005, pp.115-127, and Errol Manners, ‘Dutch ‘Fine Line’ and German Schwarzlot Decoration’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 65, 2001, pp.138-141.

A similar dish was in The Watney Collection of Dutch and English Decorated Chinese Porcelain, sold in these rooms, 7 November 2003, lot 29. A ewer and cover with a similar flower still life on one side was sold in these rooms, 5 July 2008, lot 43. Another ewer, decorated with armorials commemorating a 1724 marriage, has closely similar flower decoration to the cover and spout, suggesting a date for the decoration of this ewer to the early 1720s (published by Errol Manners, 2001, p.139, fig.3, and formerly in the Bernard Watney Collection, sold in these rooms, 7 November 2003, lot 30).

The largest group of ‘fine line’ pieces is in the porcelain collection in Dresden, which includes pieces with inventory marks showing they were present in the collection before 1721 (Manners, 2001, p.140). Two chocolate cups and saucers from this group are illustrated by Helen Espir, 2005, p.115, fig.1.