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901 - Chinese export porcelain soup plate, Qianlong ca. 1740-50. Decorated in grisaille, sepia, and gilt with a "fortune teller" scene. A palm reader carrying a baby on her back approaches a gentleman accompanied by two youths, a horse, and two hounds. The rim with a du Paquier style border. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. II, pg. 372-3, no. 365; Howard, "Choice of the Private Trader," pg. 83, no. 68. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection," 30 January 1985, Lot 230; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. China Trade Museum, 1983. Sotheby's, 1984. Diameter: 9 1/4 in.
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Chinese export porcelain soup plate, Qianlong ca. 1740-50. Decorated in grisaille, sepia, and gilt with a "fortune teller" scene. A palm reader carrying a baby on her back approaches a gentleman accompanied by two youths, a horse, and two hounds. The rim with a du Paquier style border. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. II, pg. 372-3, no. 365; Howard, "Choice of the Private Trader," pg. 83, no. 68. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection," 30 January 1985, Lot 230; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. China Trade Museum, 1983. Sotheby's, 1984. Diameter: 9 1/4 in.
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