A Chinese verte-imari 'Governor Duff' saucer-dish
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A Chinese verte-imari 'Governor Duff' saucer-dish

CIRCA 1720-30

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A Chinese verte-imari 'Governor Duff' saucer-dish
Circa 1720-30
Painted in shades of iron-red, sepia, and gilt with a touch of green, the centre depicting a couple in European 18th Century dress standing beside a dog below a maple tree in a fenced garden, surrounded by a narrow cell-pattern border reserved with floral cartouches at the rim
25.4 cm. diam.

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The couple depicted on the dish is often referred to as Governor Duff and his wife, which is suggested to be the name the Chinese gave Diederick Duiver (1676-1740, Governor of the Dutch East India Company from 1729-1731), as they were unable to pronounce his name correctly. The same couple has also been described as Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan or simply a Frisian couple. For a further discussion on Duff, see D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 137 and fig. 203 for a similar example in the Rijksmuseum.