Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 15 October 2018
Decorative Arts
About this Item
A Chinese Export famille-rose plate, Qing Dynasty, circa 1800
oval, the rim enamelled with pink and green flowerheads below a gilt border, the pierced slightly everted rim between floral medallions enclosed by a double burnt-orange and gilt border, the centre with a further floral medallion enclosed by a wreath of pink and blue flowers joined by a burnt-orange and gilt ribbon decorated with stars, restorations,26cm wide
Notes
This plate was 'made c. 1800 for Rudolph Cloete of Constantia' (Woodward, C.S., Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1975 : An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, pg. 129)
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