A GUANGZHOU (CANTON) ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' SHAPED OVAL DISH Qianlong period, circa 1750 Painted to the interior of the tray with a scene of Western figures in seventeenth-century dress in a landscape with Western buildings and depicting one group of elegant females along with an elderly bearded gentleman and a boy looking towards another group of three women and two young men seated at a slab table reading and conversing whilst two children offer fruit, a dense yellow cell ground with floral panels at the short vertical sides below a gilt-metal rim, the exterior sides with a running band of hibiscus and the entire base painted with a capriccio mountain lake landscape with European buildings either side of the lake and with two western figures crossing a bridge in the foreground. 11in (28cm) across Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1750年 銅胎廣彩《歐洲人物故事》海棠式盤 Provenance: Provenance: Bluett and Sons, London Sir Harry Garner Collection (1891-1977) Published Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 31, no. 22 來源： 倫敦Bluett & Sons古董行 Harry Garner爵士舊藏 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015年，頁31，圖版編號22