Twelve Chinese blue and white 'Cuckoo in the house' plates, Qianlong

Dia.: 23,4 - 22,8 cm (the largest and the smallest plate)

This type of decoration 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 design is illustrated in C. Jorg, Porcelain and the Dutch China trade (pl. 82). 

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