A PAIR OF 'SCHENK' BLUE AND GRISAILLE 'PARROT AND PEKINESE' PLATES Qianlong period, circa 1745-50 Decorated in rich blue enamels detailed in ink color (grisaille) and gilt, with a large, long-tailed parrot with outstretched wings on a T-shaped stand with a bowl of cherries attached at one end, being baited by a playful 'Pekinese' dog below, executed in white enamels and detailed in black. 9in (23cm) diam (2). Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1745-50年 《申克》藍彩墨彩《鸚鵡與哈巴狗》圖盤一對 Published: Cohen & Cohen, The Golden Gate Collection, Antwerp, 2018, pp. 186-187, no. 138 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《The Golden Gate Collection》，安特衛普，2018年，頁186-187，圖版編號138 The central pattern and the elaborate scroll work border are after a Meissen porcelain plate of about 1740, with a design attributed to Petrus Schenk the Elder (1660-1711), an engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig who had been sent to Japan by the VOC around 1700. The dog has been described as a Pekinese because of the Chinese connection but described in sources focused on European origins as a Bolognese dog or spaniel. A tea bowl and saucer from the service is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. 642A-1903; a handled coffee cup and saucer are illustrated in Cohen & Cohen, Baroque and Roll, Antwerp, 2005, p. 120, no. 76, the cup depicting only the parrot and not the dog. For Meissen examples, see Bonhams London, December 7, 2011, lot 80; and Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection, London, 2011, no. 576. A Meissen charger with the same pattern can be found in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection on view in the Kirschgarten Museum in Basel, illustrated in the catalogue of the collection (1972, Vol I, p. 498f), where it is mentioned that the larger part of this service (52 pieces in total) was in the Ole Olsen Collection. Rückert (1966, cat. no. 147) notes that Zimmermann (1926, p. 247) dated the service to 1760, and that on the basis of the shape of the handle on one of the two jugs in the Dresden porcelain collections the date must be after 1735. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, in his catalogue of the Klemperer Collection (1928, p. 101) dated the service earlier, to circa 1735-40. The mark, according to Rückert, points to a date around the middle of the 18th century. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Without reserve