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27. Famille rose plate, painted with ‘The Judgement of Paris’, with the Greek goddesses Hera, Aphrodite and Athena
squabbling over who is the most beautiful, the seated figure of Paris holding a shepherd’s crook, a prince of Troy and
the world’s most handsome man judging the goddesses and bestowing the prize of a golden apple, all in a mountainous
landscape scene with a hound and a cherub looking on, encircled by a gilt shell and scroll-border.
8 �⁵⁄₁₆ inches, 22.8 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1750.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• An identical plate is illustrated by Geoffrey A. Godden in Oriental Export Market Porcelain, and Its Influence on
European Wares, no. 144, p. 228; another, from the collection of L. Luneau, is illustrated by François & Nicole
Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 13.71, p. 310; a further example, formerly
in the Jacques Koukouk Collection, Paris, is illustrated by Michel Beurdeley in Porcelain of the East India Companies,
no. 130, p. 179.
• A similar plate with four shipping reserves on the border, the gift of Dr. & Mrs. George Sturgis, 1974, E52036.1,
is illustrated by William R. Sargent in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics, from the Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem, Massachusetts, no. 157, p. 298, where the author notes ‘Although the exact source of the design used for
these examples of Chinese export porcelain has yet to be traced, it is most likely derived from an engraving by
Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1480-ca. 1534), which he made after the painting by Raphael (1483-1520). Raimondi’s
print subsequently inspired a number of later treatments in print as well as on canvas, in particular one by Peter Paul
Rubens (1577-1640), now at the Prado, Madrid.

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