A CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE EGGSHELL SOUP PLATE circa 1735

painted with a butterfly hovering near another perched on a blossom above a profusion of flowers and foliage on a grassy ground, the cavetto with a pink trellis diaper border, and the blue enamel-ground rim decorated with a gilt floral vine within narrow yellow and black bands at the edge. Small chip under the rim issuing a faint hair crack.

A 3mm chip under rim at 7 o'clock.
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An identical example is illustrated by Williamson, color pl. XXXIII (bottom, right). Another formerly in the W. J. Holt Collection, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, C.B., Bernard Rackham and William King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections (London, 1931), p. 154, fig. 277, was sold at Sotheby's in London on November 5, 1991, lot 73.