A rectangular blue and white herring dish

Chinese export porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. Made for the Dutch market, decorated with a single herring in the centre after Dutch Delft models. Orders for this type of dish with single or double herring were placed by the Dutch East India Company from 1773

See ‘Four Centuries of Blue and White’ The Freylinghuysen Collection, No 184.

Period: Qianlong period (1736–1795)
Width: 24.1 cm

Price: €1.900

Condition: Fritting to the rim.

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