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A LARGE RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BURGHLEY HOUSE’ OVAL source print for this design is found, the true identity of the house
DISH remains a mystery.
Qianlong period, circa 1745-50
The center painted with a depiction of a European great country house A view of Burghley is also found in English delftware (tin-glazed
in an Elizabethan style set in a forest landscape, above which flies a earthenware) with a composition resembling the Chinese examples,
long-tailed bird, presumably a mythical phoenix (fenhuang), with two although lacking the birds or a decorative border. The designs for
further birds of out-size proportion in the tree branches below and these plates are thought to derive from a print by Johannes Kip
another feeding on the ground below, the well with spearheads below (1653-1722) in Nouveau Théater de la Grande Bretagne 1715), after a
foliate strapwork at the border. drawing by Leonard Knyff (1650-1722).
15 1/2in (39cm) across
For another example from the Mottahedeh Collection, see Howard &
$4,000 - 6,000 Ayers 1978, 261; the Peabody Essex Museum, illustrated by Sargent
2012, no, 47, 139; the Collection G. Lefevre, Paris, in Hervouët and
乾隆時期 約1745-50年 青花《Burghley莊園》橢圓大盤 Bruneau 1986, 243, fig. 10.19; and another in the Östasiaiska Museet,
Stockholm in Wirgin 1998, no. 192, 179.
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, pp. 94-95, no. 40 For the English delftware examples see: Michael Archer, English
Delftware, Rijksmuseum, no. 112; and another in the Fitzwilliam
出版： Museum, Cambridge (no. C.1569-1928).
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，頁94-95
，圖版編號40 See an example from a Belgian collector sold at Christie’s London, 27
April 2016, lot 297
Examples from this well-known service depict a European building
which was identified as Burghley House, Stamford, England, by A smaller stand, complete with its tureen and cover, from the
Howard & Ayers (1974) because of the similarities with a grisaille Collection of Leo and Doris Hodroff, was sold at Christie’s New York,
image on a circa 1735 Chinese punch bowl at Burghley (no. cer0075). 21 January 2009, lot 171.
While the design on the Chinese plates is greatly modified from the
supposed print source, some similarities may be seen. Until an original

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