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24. Dish. Chinese (Scottish market), ca. I735-40. Hard This beautifully drawn flower basket derivesfrom an untraced engraving after
paste. Diam. I5 I4 in. (38.7 cm). Helena Woolworth Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1634-I699)-one of his many variant compositions that
McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation werefreely adapted to a wide range of media long after his death. The dish is one

Gift, I962 (62.187.1) of two in the Metropolitan, and a third is in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,
Massachusetts; originally there was probably a set offour or, at most, six. The
placement of the basket on a gold ground may have originated with the Chinese
with
painter but, alternatively, could have been inspired by Westernfamiliarity
Yongzheng export porcelains richlypatterned gold, silver, and black.
in

family of Berwickshire, whose arms
Little is known the French appear on the
of
reverse this dish. The same armorial appears on the reverse two plates in the
of
of
British Museum, London.
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