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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE
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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE

CIRCA 1750

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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE
Circa 1750
Enamelled at the centre with two half-naked lovers seated below a pine and flowering tree beside two doves, one perched on a tree trunk, the grisaille cell-pattern border reserved with four puce enamel landscape cartouches, minor underside chip
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

The figures are thought to represent Cupid and Psyche, although the print source is not known. Compare the very similar plate in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989-90, Chinese Export Porcelain, pp.217-8, no.85. Others are illustrated by D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, 1974, no.231; and by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, p.321, fig.13.103.

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