Sold Ceramics - Sold Chinese Imari 1700-1800 - Tea, Coffe and Chocolate wares - Page 1
Object 2010360
Saucer
China
1730-1750
Height 19 mm (0.75 inch), diameter of rim 112 mm (4.01 inch), diameter of footring 59 mm (2.32 inch)
Saucer on footring, slightly everted rim. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, overglaze iron-red and gold with a seated figure with a walking cane and a clearly European appearance, hair style and clothing, in the background a fence with flowering plants.
Sotheby's Ca Mau Shipwreck, circa 1725, auction sale catalogue shows an illustration intended to provide instructions for the Chinese porcelain painters on the ways and appearance of unfamiliar foreigners. The foreigner depicted on this saucer is clearly such an unfamiliar (European) foreigner. (Amsterdam 2007, pp.213-214)
Condition: Perfect.
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Price: Sold.
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