Eight Chinese blue and white plates with 'Cuckoo in the house' and pagodas in a landscape, Qianlong

Dia.: 23,2 cm (the 'pagodas' plates)

Dia.: 23 cm (the 'Cuckoo in the house' plates)

The 'Cuckoo in the house' design was quite popular in the Netherlands during the second half of the 18th C. The pattern was for example actually mentioned in a 1789 VOC cargo list.

Ref.:

- A plate with similar 'Cuckoo' design is illustrated in C. Jorg, Porcelain and the Dutch China trade (pl. 82). 

- The 'Cuckoo' design also published by John Ayers in The Chinese Porcelain Collection of Marie Vergottis, 2004, no. 47.