Saucer with a whaling scene, Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, yellow, black and gold. On the front a representation of whale hunting with a sloop with three men, one of which is firing on a polar bear, behind them two sloops with crew, who have harpooned two whales, among icebergs, in the background a large ship, on the left the bow of a ship behind an iceberg, on the right the stern of another ship with a red, white and blue flag. Choppy, gray sea a white sky with birds. A crack in the edge. Decorated in Europe., anonymous, China, c. 1700 - c. 1749, Qing-dynasty (1644-1912)

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