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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DELFTWARE-STYLE’ PLATE This interesting design closely refers to the style of Dutch delft dishes
Kangxi period, circa 1720 and plates of this period, notably in the thick, apparently rather wet
the rare plate imitating a Dutch Delft dish of the late seventeenth or two-tone blue washes very characteristic of the effect created by Delft
early eighteenth century and painted in a pleasing range of cobalt- painters on absorbent opaque white (‘tin-glazed’) surfaces. Although
blue washes and penciled lines with a lotus atop a vase shaped stand it is exceptionally unusual to imitate a fairly functional coarse Dutch
at the center and surrounded by five leafy cartouches at the border pottery dish in this expensive way in China, comparable examples of
that divide five bowls with fruit or petals of flowers that are supported copying Delft originals in Jingdezhen are exemplified above all by the
on curling swags that suspend to the cavetto, the reverse with two remarkable multi-tiered ‘tulip holders’ made at around the same date.
cursory leafy sprays. It has even been suggested that the present plate was copied directly
8 1/4in (21cm) diam from a Delft example taken to Canton and transported to Jingdezhen,
for a very particular reason which justified the considerable expense.
$1,200 - 1,800 An amusing Chinese gift for the owner of a newly opened Delft pottery
kiln copying his first products?
康熙時期 約1720年 青花《代爾夫特風格》瓶花紋盤
References: Howard & Ayers, 1978, p. 84, a blue and white Chinese
Published: plate after a Delft original; Howard, 1994, p. 47, another such plate.
Cohen & Cohen, The Elephant in the Room, Antwerp, 2019, pp. 4-5,
no. 1

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《The Elephant in the Room》，安特衛
普，2019年，頁4-5，圖版編號1

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