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30. Dish and Plate. Dish: Chinese (Dutch market), ca. I740-45. Diam.
I25/8 in. (32.I cm). Inscribed 22 in underglaze blue on the underside.
Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, i97I (I971.32.I). Plate: Chinese
(Dutch market), ca. I740-45. Diam. ios/ in. (25.6 cm). Helena
Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation,
1951 (51.86.100)

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The coat arms, long ascribed to the Snoeckfamily, has recently been
identfied as that Guillot ofAmsterdam, with the suggestion that the service
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was ordered Elias Guillot (d. 1743), active in the VOC in the East. The
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blue and white dish comesfrom one at least two table services depicting
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stages in tea cultivation. The individualpieces of each service were numbered
from i to 23. Several the scenes are identical to watercolors in an album
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at Drottningholm, Sweden, of about I75o, itself apparently copiedfrom a
Chinese woodblock series of 739. Whether the striking border pattern shared
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by these pieces implies a link between them is not known; the work a master
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designer, it borrows elementsfrom Rouenfaience border the early i74os.

Plate, detail tea-cultivation scene
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