Porcelain pattipan with European decoration depicting a hunt - Lot 18

Porcelain pattipan with European decoration depicting a hunter. China. Qianlong period (1736-1795), circa 1740 Painted in famille rose enamels, with a full decoration depicting a hunter brandishing a knife with which he has just served the deer lying in front of him, sounding his horn and accompanied by two dogs of his pack. The decor is taken from a print by the German artist Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), later reproduced in Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Brauns Schweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, vol. I, 1972, fig. 348, p. 198 by Siegfried Ducruet. For a coffeepot with the same decoration, see Hervouët & Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, p. 78, no. 3.34. A plate with this decoration was preserved in the Mottahedeh Collection; a plate published in The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's, Jorge Welsh Researches & Publishing, Tome II, p. 251, no. 335; a plate published in Paulo Cunha Alves, From East to West, The Quest for Chinese Export Porcelain with Western themes 1695-1815, 2016, p. 172, no. 104; a plate in the Peabody Essex Museum (inv. E84085). Size: 14 cm x 13 cm