Details
For the Dutch market, painted in famille rose enamels with a scene of two 'East Indiaman' ships and several smaller boats in a harbor, a European figure wearing a green jacket standing in a doorway on the right side, within a Meissen-style colorful foliate scroll border and two narrow turquoise bands bordered around the rim
9 in. (22.9 cm.) diameter
Provenance
The Collection of Angelo Castelo Branco Cerqueira Caldas; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1990, lot 87.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this pattern, the ships depicted and the relationship between the decoration and Meissen, see the example illustrated in C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pp. 90-91, no. 36.

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