971 - Chinese export porcelain plate for the Indian market, Qianlong ca. 1785. Decorated along the center in famille rose with a mahout holding a whip and sitting astride an elephant among flowering plants. The scene within a gilt-edged medallion reserved on bianco-sopra-bianco (white-on-white) ground with a iron-red and gilt scallop-and-ball border along the cavetto. The rim with further bianco-sopra-bianco with flowerheads and a scalloped edge. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, "Chinese Export Porcelain," 25 January 1989, Lot 262; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Diameter: 9 1/4 in.

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