A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'HOECHST'-STYLE SILVER-SHAPED PLATTER Qianlong period, circa 1770 Molded following a Hoechst faience (tin-glazed earthenware) form and painted with a central vignette depicting a marsh scene with a pair of paddling, white-feathered swans or geese and two brightly enameled standing birds, perhaps heron with reeds nearby and a tree branch supporting an open-winged bird, perhaps a cormorant, to one side with flowering cockscomb-like flowers below, the well with six equallt-spaced flower groups and the gadrooned and shaped oval brown-dressed rim with eighteen equally-spaced raised circular knops following a silver-form, the reverse plain. 15 3/4in (40cm) across Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1770年 粉彩《赫斯特》風格銀器型托盤 This shape is rare in Chinese porcelain and copies a type made originally in the German factory of Hoechst, with the distinctive baroque molding on the rim, itself probably derived from a silver form. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Without reserve