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The group comprises: an octagonal dish decorated to the centre with two hounds in a European river landscape, the rim is decorated with floral festoons; a 'cuckoo in the house' dish, decorated with a bird in flight looking at a bird in a house which has usurped his place, the rim is decorated with cartouches reserved in blue; and a dish decorated with a boy between two rams before a pavilion amongst pine, below two cranes in flight.
The ?hounds? dish: 2.2 cm. high x 22.2 cm. wide
The ?cuckoo in the house? dish: 2.5 cm. high x 22.5 cm. diam.
The ?boy and rams? dish: 3.2 cm. high x 28.5 cm. diam.
Catalogue notes:
The 'hounds' pattern is known in two versions, after a Dutch original - one with a figure and a boat, the other with two dogs. Compare a dish illustrated in Elinor Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1982, p. 57.
The 'cuckoo in the house' pattern was a popular pattern in the Netherlands in the 18th century, and one is illustrated in Christiaan Jorg, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, The Hague, 1982, pl. 82; and a further in the Fondation de l?Hermitage in Lausanne and is illustrated in John Ayers, The Chinese Porcelain Collection of Marie Vergottis, 2004, no. 47.
Condition: The ?hounds? dish: there are two very thin hairlines across the base.
The ?cuckoo in the house? dish?there is a small flake chip to the rim, otherwise appears to be in overall good condition.
The ?boy and rams? dish: there are touched up chips and three hairlines to the rim (the longest approx. 5.3 cm.)
Origin: China
Period: 18th century
Sizes: 3.20 cm. H x 28.50 cm. diameter
1.26 in. H x 11.22 in. diameter