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PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR Enamel plaques are rare and no other example of ૶ ߒ1735ϋ ზߣ೥೗๻Гݱɛيྡؐ
this subject matter is known. The scene relates to
A EUROPEAN SUBJECT PAINTED Ը๕
a Deshayes print depicting an elegant European
ENAMEL PLAQUE Mildred R ʿ Ra! Y Mottahedeh ϗᔛ
lady with hands similarly positioned but playing
QING DYNASTY, CIRCA 1735 a keyboard, see David Howard and John Ayers, ॲߒᘽబˢ2000ϋ10˜19˚dᇜ໮411
China for the West, Chinese Porcelain and other
of rectangular form, ! nely painted in bold famille- ̈و
Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the
rose enamels with a domestic scene depicting a Mottahedeh Collection, vol. II, London and New J A Lloyd HydedChinese Painted Enamels
luxuriantly robed and bejeweled woman, perhaps York, 1978, p. 631. But the inclusion of the putti From Private and Museum Collections‘dശߕ
Penelope the wife of Odysseus, seated in a 17th ՘ආٟdॲߒd1968ϋdᇜ໮50
and the diadem on the ! gure’s head recall images
century-style European armchair, working a loom
of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. A paradigm David Howard ʿ John AyersdChina for the
with the assistance of two cherubic ! gures, all of marital ! delity, she remained faithful for West Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative
within an interior embellished with a Chinese- twenty years waiting for Odysseus’s ! nal return
style barrel-form garden seat beside a table set Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh
and famously deterred her numerous suitors by
with a ‘cracked-ice’ vase, a European jug and a Collection‘d՜2dࡐ౱ʿॲߒd1978ϋd
declaring that she would only remarry after she
platter holding a pineapple, a purple-enameled ! nished weaving a burial shroud for her father- ᇜ໮657
curtain in the foreground pulled to one side. in-law. The China Trade Romance and Reality‘d
Height 4⅞ in., 12.4 cm; Width 7½ in., 19 cm De Cordova Museumd؍ٵd௦޲d1979
$ 8,000-12,000 ϋdࠫ60
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mildred R. and Ra! Y. Mottahedeh.
Sotheby’s New York, 19th October 2000, lot 411.
LITERATURE
J.A. Lloyd Hyde, Chinese Painted Enamels From
Private and Museum Collections, China Institute in
America, New York, 1968, cat. no. 50.
David Howard and John Ayers, China for the
West, Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative
Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh
Collection, vol. II, London and New York, 1978,
cat. no. 657.
The China Trade: Romance and Reality, De
Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1979,
p. 60.

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