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21. Plate, decorated in grisaille, sepia, iron-red and gilt with a seated gentleman playing an oboe and lady feeding a parrot
perched on an oval hoop within a floral cartouche with leaves and foliage, the du Paquier-style border with four reserves
of dogs chasing deer and dogs chasing wild boars, all between open-winged owls.
9 inches, 22.8 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• A famille rose plate of this pattern in the Zeeuws Museum, Middleburg, Holland, is illustrated in colour by D. F.
Lunsingh Scheurleer in Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, pl. E, p. 80; another, from the A. Costa
Collection, Lisbon, is illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies
des Indes, no. 8.8, p. 185; a famille rose cup and saucer 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. 203, pp. 178/9,
where the author notes ‘The same design is seen on plates with bianco-sopra-bianco borders and scenic reserves en
camaieu, and this type of design was developed exclusively for porcelain in the way that Pronk had worked in the
previous decade. There is a strong Meissen influence, although no exact European original appears to be recorded’.
• A related famille rose coffee pot and cover with monograms replacing the parrot is illustrated by Michael & Ewa
Cohen in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition catalogue From Poems to Piglets, 2000, no. 21, p. 31.
• Grisaille plates of this pattern are rare.

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