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28. Plate, painted in grisaille and gilt with Aurora in her chariot drawn by two winged horses beside a bird, all amongst
billowing clouds and in the morning sun, encircled by a gilt spearhead border in the cavetto, and encircled by vignettes of
sheep and a dog beside a tree with helmet, shell and spears and vignettes of love birds perched on a bow and a quiver of
arrows beside vase and flowers, each vignette linked with gilt ruyi-heads.
9 ⅛ inches, 23.2 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1745.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• A similar plate, from the collection of J. Couque, Paris, is illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau
in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 13.10, p. 294; another was sold by Christie’s London in their auction
of The J. Louis Binder Collection of Chinese Export Art, 17th June 2003, lot 142, p. 103.
• A similar plate with a different border bearing the arms of Humbertson is illustrated by David S. Howard in Chinese
Armorial Porcelain, no. K3, p. 334; another is in the British Museum Collection, Franks gift, 1407.
• In Roman mythology, Aurora is the goddess of the dawn. She flies across the sky every morning in her chariot
announcing the arrival of the sun. She is also the mother of the wind gods.

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