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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN SUBJECT PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1765
One side with a Bacchanalian picnic scene showing
Western ladies and gentlemen drinking and courting, the
other side with Chinese ladies and boys playing music
under trees, the interior with a large bamboo and rose vine
border above a clump of fowers

13Ω in. (34.3 cm.) diameter

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE:

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 20 January 1995,
lot 183

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A ‘PETER THE GREAT’ DISH
MID-18TH CENTURY
Enameled with a depiction of Peter the Great directing
an attendant with barrels at a riverside landscape, within a
bianco-sopra-bianco foliate border

14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter

$6,000-9,000

The crowned fgure in this scene has traditionally been
identifed as Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, who
arrived in Amsterdam in 1697 and worked incognito at
the small Dutch port of Zaandam. Various scenes with
this crowned fgure working on riverside wharves are
recorded.

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