Damaged, but a rare piece

Sharing with you this fantastic and unusual Chinese porcelain dish. Decorated in Encre de Chine or En grisaille. Th centre with a carefully drawn scene of `Le Pêcheur` After A.Bloemaert.

or a Chinese Export Porcelain plate with a version of this design with a close up of the original engraved source see : Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande (D.F. Lunsingh Scheuleer, Faber and Faber, 1974. ISBN 0-571-08787-6) plates 206 and 207 and another plate but with a different border 298. For another version of this Chinese Export Porcelain design see : The Choice of the Private Trader, The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection (David S.Howard, Zwemmer,1994. ISBN 0-302-00642-7) page 82, plate 67. For a plate of this design described as possibly for the Dutch market and dated to c.1750 is illustrated in : Chinese Export Porcelain, Elvehjem Museum of Art (Catherine Coleman Brawer, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison,1992. ISBN 932900-30-5, page 113, plate 86. A plate of this pattern in Camaïeu Rose is illustrated in : China for the West, Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (David S. Howard and John Ayers, Sotheby`s,1978) Volume 1, page369, plate 362.
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