The Helen Espir Collection - 12th November 2014
Lot 363
A pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated plates early 18th century
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
A pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated plates early 18th century, the blanks enamelled in Holland in the Kakiemon palette, each with two sprigs of flowering prunus and two of chrysanthemum, perhaps to represent Spring and Autumn, the rims with a continuous band of half mon and pendant stylized designs in blue and green, 22.7cm. (2)
Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no. 669. Purchased from Jonathan Bennett, July 1998.
The decoration on these plates is believed to date from c.1730 and, while the motifs it incorporates are directly copied from the Japanese, the arrangement is decidedly European in style.