Pair of Chinese export blue and white porcelain 'herring' dishes, Qianlong ca. 1765. Each of rectangular form with canted corners and slightly raised rims.…

Pair of Chinese export blue and white porcelain 'herring' dishes, Qianlong ca. 1765. Each of rectangular form with canted corners and slightly raised rims. Painted along the center with a fish within a border of floral lappets and a band of cell pattern below the rim. The reverse with eight groups of four dots painted in a deep cobalt blue. Illustrated in David S. Howard, "Choice of the Private Trader," pg. 131, no. 136. Provenance: Christie's, Amsterdam, "Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Wor

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