A Chinese Export dish “le moine entreprenant” after Francis Hayman. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting a monk catching a woman under a tree, after a painting of Francis Hayman (1708-1776).
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Qianlong (1736-1795), ca. 1760
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 8.07 in. (20,5 cm)
- Reference :
- E271
- Status:
- sold
Related works
This design is illustrated by Hervouët & Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, no. 7.113 (Hervouët collection, Sotheby’s Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1612, from A. Vecht, Amsterdam).
For a tea bowl and saucer (from the collection of the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, Lorient), see Louis Mezin, Cargaisons de Chine, 2002, no. 99
Another dish was in the Edouard Cochet Collection, Paris (Fraysse & Associés, Paris, 10 November 2011, lot 117).
A coffee cup and saucer are in the collections of the British Museum and illustrated by Krahl and Harrison-Hall, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from the British Museum, 164, no. 70
Notice
The painting depicting this scene is in the collections of the Musée National Magnin (Dijon, France).
