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Enameled with Neptune holding his trident and astride his dolphin in a choppy sea approaching a ship bearing a blank flag, within gilt spearhead in the well and to the rim
9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter


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It is likely that this design was adapted to the nationality of the purchaser, since ships with Swedish, Danish Dutch and French flags are recorded, and other may well have been ordered.
An example of this plate with the Dutch flag is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, illustrated by J. G. Phillips, China Trade Porcelain, 1960, pl. 62.

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