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The first pair verte-Imari with foliate rims, painted with a European couple seated in front of an open bird cage; the second pair verte, grisaille and gilt decorated with a seamstress seated on rocks beneath a tree
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the 'Seamstress' saucers


Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 26 January 2006, lot 177 (part).
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Lot Essay

The design for the 'Bird Catcher' saucers is probably after a painting by Pater. See Howard & Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, p. 360, no. 349 for the Mottahedeh example.

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