A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GILT-DECORATED 'BOTANICAL' PLATE BASED ON DESIGNS BY THE GERMAN BOTANIST MARIA SYBILLE MERIAN, QIANLONG, CA. 1740

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Dia.: 15,5 cm 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

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