Details
Each brightly enameled with a lady catching cherries being tossed down into her lap by a young man standing on a ladder propped against the tree, another lady seated beside a large basket and a dog, all below a simple iron-red and gilt rope-twist band at the rim; together with a similar 'cherry pickers' tea bowl
914 in. (23.6 cm.) diameter
Provenance
A pair acquired from John Sparks, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1980.

A pair with D. M. & P. Manheim, New York.
The Collection of Dr. Kenneth J. Maier, Lake Forest, Illinois; Christie's, New York, 7 November 1984, lot 111.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 January 1990, lot 350.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

A plate sold; The Angelo Caldas Collection; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1990, lot 244.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Two plates and a cup sold; Matthew & Elisabeth Sharpe, Pennsylvania; Christie's, New York, 2 February, 1991, lot 62.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 89, fig. 4.23 for an identical plate, where the authors inform us that this scene was inspired by an engraving by Nicolas Ponce, after a painting by Antoine Baudouin. Ponce's engraving was apparently inspiration to his famed brother-in-law François Boucher's painting titled The Cherry Gatherers, now in the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House.

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