Description:D: 23.2cm
Pencilled in the center with Neptune in a chariot pulled by dolphins, waving his trident to calm the waves, attended by mermen and sea nymphs.
This beautiful classical subject soup plate is an example from a group of very refined pencilled blue and white 'Chine de commande' wares that were produced in the mid Qianlong period. These are particularly impressive.
'Famille rose chine de commande' wares would have been enamelled at Canton, near the European East India Company factories, and thus under easy supervision.
However, the patterns for underglaze blue wares would have to be sent across country to Jingdezhen, a far slower process. At the factory in Jingdezhen the potters and painters were on their own. Cultural misinterpretations of the design or poor quality work could not be quickly rectified, so this is a doubly impressive achievement.
The potters were almost certainly working from an engraving by the Dutch artist Frederick Bloemeart (1610-1669),reproducing an earlier drawing by his father Abraham, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, as pointed out by Le Corbeillier, in 'China Trade Porcelain-Patterns of Exchange', New York, 1974,no.28,which also shows a plate from the service.
The subject may derive from Virgil in the Aeneid, book l, lines 124 to 143,where Neptune calms the waves with his trident, after the goddess Juno had let loose a storm in order to harm the retreating Trojan army.
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