Description
Decorated in rich underglazed cobalt blue and heightened in gilding, the centre with two caterpillars crawling across a spray of exotic flowers and a butterfly hovering over them, flowers and insects painted with exceptional detail and very well-shaded, within a decorative dark blue band and an elaborate European style strapwork border, of which gilding still visible, the reverse painted at the rim with a trellis-work diaper, the rim with a brown wash.
Lot 709
A Chinese blue and white gilt-decorated 'Botanical' plate based on designs by the German botanist Maria Sybille Merian
Qianlong, ca. 1740
Dia.: 15,5 cm
This lot was sold on 5 September 2026, 9 AM (CEST) and is no longer available
