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35. Plate, decorated in grisaille and gilt with the scene Le Pêcheur, ‘The Fisherman,’ in a European landscape scene with the
a bare-footed fisherman standing at the edge of a river beside a tree trunk with a village in a distance beneath birds and
clouds, encircled by a elaborate border on a flat rim with four different landscape vignettes brightly gilded on a geometric
diaper ground with chrysanthemum flowerhead, with a further scrolling band at the gilt rim.
9 �⁄₁₆ inches, 23 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1750.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• The scene Le Pêcheur is faithfully copied from a drawing by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert (born in Haarlem
1564, died 1651).
• An identical plate, formerly in the Dinastia Art Gallery, Portugal, 1975, is illustrated by Jorge Getulio Veiga in
Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, pl. 132, p. 161; another is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh
Scheurleer in Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, no. 206, where the author illustrates a print by or
after Abraham Bloemaert, in the Prentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, published by C. J. Visscher; another
illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 3.9, p.
66, was sold by Sotheby’s London in their auction of Fine Chinese Export Porcelain, the Hervouët Collection, Part II,
3rd November 1987, lot 808; a pair of plates formerly in the collection of Dr. Julien Pergola is illustrated by Regina
Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Two, no. 972, pp. 280 & 283.
• A similar plate with du Paquier-style grisaille border lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Claire
Le Corbeiller in the exhibition of China Trade Porcelain, A Study in Double Reflections, China House Gallery, China
Institute in America, 1973-1974, no. 26, p. 41; another is illustrated by David S. Howard & John Ayers in China for
the West, Volume two, no. 362, pp. 368/9.

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