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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN COUPLE
CIRCA 1770 A FAMILLE ROSE AND UNDERGLAZE BLUE PART DINNER
SERVICE
Each wearing a colorful costume and holding a posy, the gentleman QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
with his arm around the lady
Each piece painted in the famille rose palette with a Chinese family
9 in. (23 cm.) high
group watching a fght between a dog and a rooster, with a river and
$15,000-25,000
pavilion in the background, encircled by an underglaze-blue foral
PROVENANCE:
border, comprising:
The Collection of Mildred R. and Raf Y. Mottahedeh; Sotheby’s,
New York, 19 October 2000, lot 409. A large soup tureen, cover and stand, 15 in. (38.1 cm.) wide

EXHIBITED: A pair of sauce tureens, covers and stands, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide

De Cordova Museum, 1979. A pair of large octagonal platters, 17Ω in. (44.5 cm.) wide
Virginia Museum, 1981-82.
Sotheby’s, 1984. A pair of large serving dishes, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide

LITERATURE: Two serving dishes of different sizes 11º in. (28.6 cm.) wide, the

D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and largest
Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection,
London and New York, 1978, vol. II, pp. 616 - 617, no. 647. A sauceboat, 8º in. (21 cm.) long
D. Howard and J. Ayers, Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from
the Mottahedeh Collection in the Virginia Museum, London, 1981, p. 80, A pair of octagonal salts, 3¿ in. (7.9 cm.) wide
no. 647.
10 octagonal dinner plates, 8æ in. (22.2 cm.) wide

13 octagonal soup plates, 8æ in. (22.2 cm.) wide (41)

$20,000-30,000

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