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A Chinese export porcelain dish depicting 'The Nativity'
Estimate
600 - 900
Session 2
26 March 2026
Hammer Price
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Chinese export porcelain
Decorated with Famille Rose enamels and gilt, depicting at the centre the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Shepherds reclining beside the Christ Child, lying in a manger, in a landscape covered with vegetation, with a sleeping donkey in the foreground
Border decorated with a continuous 'du Paquier'-style surround, with cut-out scrollwork and trellis panels, interspersed with vine torches and polychrome flower sprays
Qianlong period, c.1740
(minor rim chips)
Diam.: 23 cm
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