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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE OBLONG OCTAGONAL DISH seventy years later), these albums very often illustrate the three great
DEPICTING ‘PORCELAIN PRODUCTION’ Chinese manufacturing industries familiar to Westerners: the silk trade,
Qianlong period, circa 1770-1780 porcelain manufacture, and tea production and marketing.
Vividly painted with scenes of the ‘manufacture of porcelain’, the
center with an extensive scene depicting outdoor drying racks of small Other examples from this rare and probably unique blue and white
vessels within a complex of kiln workshops, and carriers moving the service can be found in the permanent collections of the Groninger
long thin laden racks around the industrial site, the rim with a border of Museum, the Winterthur Museum, Historic Deerfield at Deerfield, MA,
pomegranate panels reserved on a cell-patten ground. the Peabody Essex Museum, among others.
14 3/4in (38cm) wide
References: Cohen & Cohen, 2006, no. 33, pp. 54-57, a blue and
$4,000 - 6,000 white punch bowl with a similar scene, and a detailed description of
ceramic production; and a tureen, cover and stand in The Peabody
乾隆時期 約1770-1780年 罕見青花《製瓷圖》八方長盤 Essex Museum, illustrated by Sargent 2012, no. 50, pp. 142-143
where the author cites an extensive list of related wares either in other
Published: collections or offered in auction sales; as well as related porcelains
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger, Antwerp, 2016, pp. 84-85, no. 38 and depicting scenes of ceramic production.
also illustrated on the endpapers
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，2016年，頁84-85，圖錄編號38，亦為
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Images on Export porcelain depicting stages in the manufacture of
porcelain are relatively rare. This platter is from the only known dinner
service with this scene, although a closely- related scene is found on
a punch bowl. Surviving examples from the original service suggest
that it was extensive. The intended market is unknown but the many
examples surviving in Sweden suggest that this Scandinavian center of
the China Trade was the original destination. The service was probably
imported as a ‘special commission’ by the Swedish East Company
through its headquarters on Sweden’s west coast, at Gothenburg.
The scenes seem to be essentially fanciful and may be based on
bound albums of watercolors (on Chinese pith-paper or rag-paper). (detail)
Created for the export trade (before the discovery of photography

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