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A RARE LARGE ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ MARITIME CHARGER The source of the image is unknown, but its slightly stiff composition
FOR THE SWEDISH MARKET indicates that it may have been a composite design drawn in
Qianlong period, circa 1750 Canton by an enterprising supercargo using earlier Western prints.
Softly enameled principally in pale blue, green and sepia with a large Alternatively, it may have been inspired or adapted from another image
central roundel depicting Neptune, classical God of the Seas, riding a of Neptune riding dolphins which is also known on Chinese export
large dolphin and brandishing his trident above wildly breaking waves porcelain, taken from an engraving by Frederick Bloemaert after his
in pursuit of a European merchant shop flying the Swedish flag at its father Abraham’s painting ‘The Triumph of Neptune’. (fig.1)
stern, within bands of gilt spearheads, and rococo shellwork around
the border. References: Wirgin 1998, no. 202, p.187, a dinner plate with a
15 1/4in (38.6cm) diam Swedish flag; Hervouet, p. 40, no. 2.13, an example with a Dutch flag
and the different border; Mezin 2004, p. 94
$2,000 - 3,000

乾隆時期 約1750年 稀有為瑞典市場製粉彩描金《歐洲神話》航海圖
大盤
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, pp. 88-89, no. 50
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014
年-B，頁88-89，圖版編號50

This design is recorded also with the merchant ship flying alternatively
a Danish or a Dutch flag. It has been suggested that dishes of the
design were probably offered as a ‘special order’ to sailors in Canton,
a souvenir of their visit with the flag of their own nation enameled in (fig.1)
a final firing. The versions with Scandinavian flags have this border of
shell scrolls, but the variant with a Dutch flag has a different border.
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