A very unusual Chinese Export rectangular serving dish, the porcelain Qianlong, circa 1780, painted with a harbour scene of cloth traders offering their merchandise to prospective buyers, left a panel is inscribed AVP, relating to a cloth trader from Leiden, with Latin Motto, the borders in underglaze blue, approximately 30cm wideProvenance: Previously in a Swedish private collectionCompare with earlier examples illustrated in Dr. C.J.A. Jorg, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, pp. 284-285, fig. 117清乾隆 外销商贾图盘品相报告: in good condition other than some wear to gilding commensurate with agesome firing blemishessome very minor rim fritsuncertain if decoration contemporary with dishthe decoration probably period but unrecorded and a variant of the earlier 1740-50 plates painted in Holland with the same trading scene but these additionally featuring the Arms of the City of Brussels. The decoration on the current example would appear to be period with the dish rather than later decorated but could be later. Compare with the earlier examples illustrated in Dr. C.J.A. Jorg, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, pp. 284-285, fig. 117