Well painted with the scene of Joseph escaping the advances of Zukelia, wife of Potifar, in a European interior with columns. The half-naked woman tries to restrain the young man, above the door there is a figure in a niche and in the foreground an amphora and a basket; on the back it bears two labels of Antichità Perotto.


Provenance: purchased from an Italian private collection from Antichità Perotto in Milan in the 1980s, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Perotto.


Catalog notes:

A plate with the same but slightly larger decoration is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, object number C.75-1963 (see: Chinese Export Ceramics, Rose Kerr, Luisa E. Mengoni, London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p. 69, pl. 87).

See also the plate with the same decoration and size in the collection of the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes in Citadelle de Port-Louis, object number M0224000075 (see: La porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à décor occidental, François et Nicole Hervouët, Yves Bruneau, Paris, Flammarion, 1986, cat. 11.4. See also: Chinese Export Art century in the Eighteenth Century, Margaret Jourdain, R. Soame Jenyns, London, Contry Life Limited, 1950, 91. See also: Iconographie de l'Art Chrétien, Louis Réau, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1956, t.II Iconographie de la Bible, I Ancien Testament, p.163-165.).

See also the teapot with the same scene published in: Chinese Export Porcelain, E. Gordon, New York, 1975.

The biblical scene, popular in the iconographic repertoire of printers, has been performed in different ways and styles in Europe since the early 16th century. This specific version, in which the woman grasps the mantle of Joseph, was connected to an engraving made by Marcantonio Raimondi between 1515 and 1525, taken from a fresco by Raphael in the Vatican Lodges, although the direct source is likely to be a later print.

稀有描绘欧洲主题粉彩瓷盘，中国，清朝，约 1750 年。

Dimensions:
d cm 15,3