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30. Large tankard, decorated in grisaille, iron-red and gilt with ‘The Seamstress’ or ‘The Embroiderer’ seated holding a
ball of material with her back to a window with boats, a fisherman seated at the stern beside a cliff with buildings, in
a circular medallion between flower sprays and beneath a spearhead border at the rim, the single strapped handle with
ruyi-head terminal.
The base unglazed with old writing in ink, F. W. R. Wa.l., 1897.
6 ⅛ inches, 15.6 cm high.
Qianlong, circa 1750.
• From a North of England private collection.
• A coffee pot and cover with similar design, probably from the same set, for the Rio de Janeiro market, is illustrated
by Jorge Getulio Veiga in Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, pl. 147, pp. 174/5.
• A similar plate is illustrated by John Goldsmith Phillips in China Trade Porcelain, An Account of Its Historical
Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, pl. 9, p. 75, where
the author also illustrates a tea set of this pattern, pl. 58, p. 140; another two similar plates are illustrated by François
& Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 6.47 & 6.48, p. 131.

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