A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE 'RIVER GODS IN DISTRESS' SIDE PLATE AFTER TYELER Qianlong period, circa 1755-60 Painted in dark shades of underglaze cobalt blue with a scene of six semi-naked figures on a small promontory with reeds, two standing, three seated and one prone with an arm outstretched in the river before them, two semi-naked children embraced to one side and reflected in the water below them, a rocky outcrop with trees and bushes rises to one side, all below a simple diaper-cell ground at the border, the reverse plain. 6 1/2in (16.5cm) diam Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1755-60年 青花仿Tyeler之《河神遭難》圖小盤 Published: Cohen & Cohen, Hit and Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 85, no. 48 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit and Myth》，安特衛普，2014年-B，頁85，圖版編號48 See the footnote relating to the previous lot for a discussion of the mythological subject. Before the discovery of the Tyeler engraving, it had been suggested, understandably so, given the possible misreading of the depiction, that the scene was that of survivors of a shipwreck off the east African coast. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Without reserve