A SET OF SEVEN CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'SCHEVENINGEN' PLATES, KANGXI (1662-1722)

Painted in the Japanese style copying a Dutch Delft original in the manner of Frederik van Frytom, the pattern traditionally also known as 'Deshima Island', depicting three figures and a bull in the foreground of various buildings around a harbour, all within a washed-blue wave-pattern border on the flat everted rim (rim frittings, two repaired, one with rim crack) 19.5 cm. diam. (7)

Catalogue Note Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chine de Commande, Londen, 1974, pl. 272, illustrated, in the Museum De Sypesteyn, Loosdrecht. D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, Londen, 1978, vol. 1, no. 32, illustrated, from the Mottahedeh Collection. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pl. 10, illustrated.