Details
Each painted on one half with flower sprigs and on the other with gilt stars on a chocolate-brown ground, all within tied garlands and flower-heads, shaped rims
638 in. (16.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 January 1995, lot 172.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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Lot Essay

The present pattern is thought to be for the Portuguese market, although little is known whether there lies significance in the lightness and darkness of the two halves, perhaps suggesting night and day. For a very similar plate to the present lot, see D. Howard, J. Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, II, p. 549, no. 567, where it is discussed that the same design was used for a service made for Dom Joaquin Xavier Batello de Lima (1717-1800), Archbishop of Evora.

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