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22. Plate, decorated in grisaille, iron-red and gilt, with a shepherdess in a straw hat seated beside a tree trunk, holding a
lamb at her side, her skin picked out in flesh tones and her lips in iron-red, all within a gilt spearhead band in the
cavetto, with traces of a gilt border.
8 ⅞ inches, 22.5 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• A similar plate, from the Jade Company, Geneva, is illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La
Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 6.58, p. 135; another was included by Christie’s London in their auction of
The J. Louis Binder Collection of Chinese Export Art, 17th June 2003, lot 68, p. 55.
• This pattern is believed to have been inspired by a Meissen original.
• Famille rose versions are well known, David S. Howard & John Ayers illustrate one on the front cover of Masterpieces
of Chinese Export Porcelain, from the Mottahedeh Collection in the Virginia Museum, where the authors note that a
shepherdess with no lamb is illustrated by Siegfried Ducret in Meissner Porzellan, vol. II, p. 306, and believe that the
original service was painted in Augsburg by hausmaler, home painters.

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