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13. Pair of large famille rose chargers, each painted in the centre with five carp in white, grey and pink enamels and iron-
red, swimming amongst water reeds, a lotus root and lotus flowers, encircled by four blue enamel flowering camellia
branches, all within a gilt spearhead border at the rim.
13 ⅞ inches, 35.3 cm diameter.
Early Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From an English private collection.
• One of an identical pair of this size is illustrated by Jorge Getulio Veiga in Chinese Export Porcelain in Private
Brazilian Collections, pl. 314, p. 332.
• Dishes of similar design with blue enamel were salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher from the Geldermalsen cargo
which sank in 1752, are illustrated by Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn in The Hatcher Porcelain Cargos, The
Complete Record, pl. 157-159, pp. 118/9. Underglaze blue versions are illustrated on pl. 155/6, pp. 116/7.

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