Lot 1173 A SET OF THREE 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) Diameter 19.5 cm. (3)

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.