Two Chinese porcelain blue and white ‘Van Frytom’ style ‘Scheveningen’ or ‘Deshima’ dishes, Yongzhen 1722 - 1735

Unknown artist

PorcelainChinese porcelain
2.50 cm, ø 20 cm
ConditionGood
€ 1.500

Menken Works of Art

• About the artwork
  A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white ‘Van Frytom’ style ‘Scheveningen’ or ‘Deshima’ dishes.
  Yongzheng period (1722–35).
  
  Ref:
  A ‘Van Frytom’ style dish is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, accession number 2002.447.116. This dish is also illustrated in Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 114, pl. 93.
  
  For an illustrated example of a similar dish, but made in Jingdezhen in the Kangxi period (1662-1722) see D.S. Howard, 'The Choice of the Private Trader' (1994), p. 44, pl. 11.
  
  Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chine de Commande, Londen, 1974, pl. 272, illustrated, in the Museum De Sypesteyn, Loosdrecht.
  
  D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, Londen, 1978, vol. 1, no. 32, illustrated, from the Mottahedeh Collection.
  
  Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, pl. 10, illustrated.
  
  Dimensions:
  Diameter 20 cm, height 2.5 cm.
  
  Condition:
  One of the dishes with a chip, both dishes with some glaze loss to the rim.
  
  Inv. No: MW108
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