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40. Pair of plates, decorated en grisaille with gilt, sepia, iron-red and green enamels, with a central floral medallion of a
harvest scene with grain being cut in a field, carried on horseback and loaded into a cart, amongst rockwork, beside
water and beneath clouds and birds, with a tree in the distance heightened in green enamel, encircled by a border with
floral swags amongst scrolling branches with shells, lyres and arrows.
9 inches, 22.8 cm diameter.
Qianlong, circa 1760.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• One of this pair described as Travaux des champs, ‘countryside labours’ is illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët
& Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 4.9, p. 84; another 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. 65, p. 149.

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