A Dutch Delft polychrome plaque, mid-18th century

of moulded cartouche form, painted with a rectangular panel of a riverscape with a figure in a pagoda, reserved on a ground of blue flowering scrolls, flanked by two relief moulded harlequin masks in profile, with scalloped shaped terminal and pierced hanger,

The collection of Richard and Georgette Koopman, USA.

PAN, Amsterdam, 2005.

In overall good appearance and condition. Minor glaze losses to edge of rim. The reverse of the plaque with a protruding area of clay from the production process. There is an area of glue residue to the reverse at the pierced hole which probably associated with an earlier form of mounting or hanging, and does not appear to be attached to a condition issue.
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A further example of a plaque of this unusual form was sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 8th April 2004, lot 21.