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17. Pair of famille rose large dishes, each brightly enamelled with a central scene of two horses gambolling, one a piebald
in iron-red with gilt and white enamel speckles and one in pink and ruby enamel, beneath a large willow tree amongst
rockwork, lingzhi fungus and flowers, encircled in the cavetto by cash and lozenge reserves on green and pink-diaper
grounds with gilt flowerheads, the flat everted rim with four flower sprays of peony, prunus, daisy, chrysanthemum and
bamboo beneath an iron-red scroll band at the rim.
14 inches, 35.6 cm diameter.
Early Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From an important European collection.
• A similar pair are illustrated by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos in The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics, A Collector’s
Vision, Volume One, no. 164, p. 356; another pair is illustrated by William Motley in the Cohen & Cohen
exhibition catalogue Think Pink, 2013, no. 37, pp. 50/1; a plate is illustrated by David S. Howard in The Choice of
the Private Trader, the Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, no. 39, p. 63.
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