An extremely rare blue and white silver-shaped Swedish Market Armorial "Grill Family" oval platter
Qianlong Period, Circa 1760
Qianlong Period, Circa 1760
Painted at the center with an unusual scene of a crane with outstretched wings standing atop its nest and three large eggs on the pinnacle of a chimney on a building rooftop while holding a locust or cricket in its long beak and standing on one leg, all surrounded by a dense rocaille and shell border design below the way rim.
12in (30.5cm) across
清乾隆 約1760年 青花紋章盤
Provenance:
Suchow and Seigel, New York
來源:
Suchow and Seigel, 紐約
For a similar example, see Stig Roth, Chinese Porcelain Imported by the Swedish East India Company, Gothenburg, Gothenburg Historical Museum, 1965, p. 18; see also the Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, 2003, p. 25.
The Service was ordered by Jean Abraham Grill, circa 1760.
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Qianlong Period, Circa 1760
Qianlong Period, Circa 1760
Painted at the center with an unusual scene of a crane with outstretched wings standing atop its nest and three large eggs on the pinnacle of a chimney on a building rooftop while holding a locust or cricket in its long beak and standing on one leg, all surrounded by a dense rocaille and shell border design below the way rim.
12in (30.5cm) across
清乾隆 約1760年 青花紋章盤
Provenance:
Suchow and Seigel, New York
來源:
Suchow and Seigel, 紐約
For a similar example, see Stig Roth, Chinese Porcelain Imported by the Swedish East India Company, Gothenburg, Gothenburg Historical Museum, 1965, p. 18; see also the Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, 2003, p. 25.
The Service was ordered by Jean Abraham Grill, circa 1760.