Two puce-decorated dishes Qing dynasty, 18th century

The fisherman dish: Mottahedeh Collection;

Sold Sotheby’s New York, Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection, 30 January 1985, lot 227;

Dom Alexandre de Sousa e Holstein Beck, Visconde de Lançada (1934-2014);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export, vol. II, no. 362.

The firshermen dish:

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, The China Trade: Romance and Reality, 1979

Virginia Museum of Arts, Richmond, Virginia, The Mottahedeh Collection, 1981-2

American China Trade Exhibition, China for the West, Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, New York, 1984.