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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE SAUCER DISH
Kangxi, circa 1700
41cm (16 1/8in) diam.
清康熙，約1700年 五彩人物圖盤

Provenance:
Mallett & Sons Ltd., London
R.H.R Palmer (1898-1970), acquired from the above in December
1929, Collection no.221

Published and Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome
Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912, London, 1951, no.92

來源：
倫敦古董商Mallett & Sons Ltd.
R.H.R Palmer（1898-1970）於1929年12月購自上者，典藏編號221
展覽著錄：
倫敦東方陶瓷學會，《Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain
of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912》，倫敦，1951年，編號92

It is difficult to recapture the excitement that large famille verte saucer Though originally European collectors did not understand what
dishes of this kind caused, when they first began to arrive in Europe these elaborate military and Court-related designs actually depicted,
from 1685 when the trade from China was revived after rebellions, nonetheless they remained enduringly popular with interior decorators
and the destruction of the kilns in Jingdezhen in 1674. When trade fitting out grand houses in Western Europe in the whimsical, rococo
resumed it included both porcelain made for export but often also taste of fanciful ‘Chinoiserie’, until the advent of simpler Neoclassical
porcelain which was made for the domestic market but available for tastes in the 1760s brought the era of ‘Chinoiserie’ interior design to
purchase by European traders. a rather abrupt end. However, very many English owners of grand
country house were largely impervious to movements in domestic taste.
See a related famille verte dish, Kangxi, with related scene of military Splendid dishes like this example were still being displayed in drawing
figures, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the rooms in the early 20th century, 300 years after they had attracted
Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, fashionable English buyers in the shops along Jermyn St, the heart of
Shanghai, 1999, p.107, no.97. This example as well as the Palmer the rapidly expanding West End of London where fashionable buyers
dish reproduce with some elaboration a mid-17th century woodblock would go to buy tea, coffee, silk, spices, fans and porcelain from the
print source which had obviously arrived at the massive kiln city of latest East India cargoes recently docked in the Port of London.
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, for potters to copy onto dishes.

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