DELFT - Lot 326

DELFT A round earthenware dish with a slightly contoured rim decorated with polychrome decoration in the style of Kangxi-period Chinese green family porcelains, with a qilin and a phoenix in the center on a flowery terrace in a medallion surrounded by four compartments decorated with a lion, a tiger, a horse and a deer facing a bird, the rim decorated with butterflies in four reserves on a trellis and rosette border. De Roos workshop. Mark on reverse. Early 18th century, circa 1720. D. 33.5 cm. Two restored chips and an associated small crack. Provenance : Vandermeersch label. Label from the Desurmont collection, 1914. Sale Les Choix de Christophe Perlès, Pescheteau-Badin, June 18, 2018, lot 23. This dish is directly inspired by a Chinese porcelain model from the Kangxi period (1662-1722). A Delft earthenware dish with the same decoration in the center is preserved at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and reproduced by Dr. Ferrand W. Hudig, Delfter Fayence, Berlin, 1929, p. 159. A round dish with the same decoration, marked Roos, was in Madame Brasseur's collection, 1st sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 16-18, 1919, lot 228, described as a remarkable piece; another was in the Blancan collection, Drouot sale 20 / 22 November 1924, no. 64.