A HUTSCHENREUTHER PLATE painted after Boucher with a pastoral scene of a youth teaching his companion to play the pipe in an Arcadian landscape, the lustrous claret border richly gilt with wreaths of laurel, tasselled bows, flower-heads and white medallions, impressed crowned shield mark, blue shield mark, traces of script, circa 1890
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A HUTSCHENREUTHER PLATE painted after Boucher with a pastoral scene of a youth teaching his companion to play the pipe in an Arcadian landscape, the lustrous claret border richly gilt with wreaths of laurel, tasselled bows, flower-heads and white medallions, impressed crowned shield mark, blue shield mark, traces of script, circa 1890
9½in. (24cm.) diam.
Lot Essay
A copy of 'La Piacevole Lezione', a lost picture of 1748 by F. Boucher. The scene on this plate was probably copied from a print