An extensive Chinese blue and white 'hunting scene' service, 18/19th C.

Provenance: The Dutch noble family Greven-Twiss Quarles van Ufford. (by repute)

Dim.: 37 x 28,5 cm (the largest oval dish)
Dia.: 44 cm (the large strainer on stand)
Dim.: 30,5 x 22 x 21 cm (the largest tureen)

Containing: 
- One large strainer
- Three tureens
- Six reticulated baskets
- Three oval butter tubs and covers on stands 
- Two sauceboats 
- Three leave-shaped dishes
- Two salts with interior bowls
- Eight pierced border plates 
- Two strainer bowls
- One oval bowl
- Eleven oval platters
- Six soup plates (Dia.: 23,5 cm)
- Six dinner plates (Dia.: 23,5 cm)
- Eight dinner plates (Dia.: 26cm)
- One round bowl 
- Three shallow bowls (Dia.: 27 - 28 cm)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three tureens in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.
- One small basket in excellent condition. The other small basket generally in good condition, with minor superficial glaze line in the reticulated part.
- Both medium size baskets in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.
- One of the large baskets in nearly excellent condition, with a circular hairline between one connection of one handle. The other basket with one handle reattached to the basket, a consolidated hairline and a retouched chip with a related hairline.
- The large round bowl with minor glaze loss, baking flaws and a number of superficial chips along the rim.
- The pair of salts generally in excellent condition. The interior bowls with no damage whatsoever. The exterior with minor baking flaws on the rim.
- Both sauceboats in nearly excellent condition, with minor superficial small rim chips.
- Three leave-shaped dishes in excellent condition.
- Two butter tubs in excellent condition, one butter tub with a hairline. All three covers in excellent to very good condition, with minor baking flaws. One of the three covers with a small superficial rim chip.
- Both strainer bowls generally in very good condition, with minor baking flaws and some negligible small superficial rim chips.
- The large oval bowl in nearly excellent condition, with minor burst glaze bubbles around the rim.
- Most oval platters in excellent condition, no hairlines, with minor superficial wear, baking flaws and minimal superficial rim chips. One large deep ovale platter with some crazing of the glaze.
- Seven pierced border plates in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear. One pierced border plate with extensive crazing of the glaze.
- Six soup plates with losses of the glaze along the rim and a few small superficial rim chips.
- Six dinner plates (Dia.: 23,5 cm) with minor losses of the glaze along the rim and a few small superficial rim chips.
- Eight dinner plates (Dia.: 26cm) with losses of the glaze along the rim and a small superficial rim chips. One of the eight plates with a 5 cm hairline and another plate with a 1 cm hairline from the rim.
- Three shallow bowls with glaze loss along the rim and minor crazing of the glaze.
- The large strainer basin with baking flaws and burst glaze bubbles along the rims, a small superficial chip from the inner rim. The strainer in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.