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Description:
Chinese export porcelain bowl decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette with a boatman approaching the shore where two men are waiting, a sailing ship coming down the river, and building along both shores. Hervouet and Bruneau illustrate several variations of these harbor scenes painted in the style of the German Meissen Factory porcelain of the 1730s and 1740s, which probably reached China through the Dutch East India Company and appear to have remained popular into the 1760s. The quality of painting can vary greatly.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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