Een paar Chinese blauw-witte schotels met 'Koekoek in het huis' decor, Qianlong

Dia.: 35 cm

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.