5. Blue and White Octafoil Dish Delft, circa 1680-85 Marked SVE in blue for Samuel van Eenhoorn, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) Factory from 1678 to 1685 Painted in the center with a Chinese lady holding a longstemmed flower and being followed by an attendant carrying a tall fan and walking near a vase of flowers on a table beneath a pine tree and amidst rocks and shrubbery, the cavetto and rim with four figural vignettes depicting at the top two seated men conversing near a fence, at the bottom a man seated on a bench before a fence, and at the sides either a man bearing a dish of fruit or a lady standing beneath a pine tree, all within a blue scalloped and barbed edge, the underside with four concentric blue lines, and the footrim pierced with a hole for suspension. Diameter: 25.7 cm. (10 1/8 in.) 15
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