CIRCA 1750

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'LES OIES DE FRERE PHILIPPE' PLATE
CIRCA 1750
Finely enamelled at the centre with Frère Philippe introducing his son to two ladies, their parasol being held by an attendant, within scattered flower sprays at the border, minor underside chips
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased Christie's New York, 22 January 1998, lot 43.

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Lot Essay

This scene illustrates a fable by La Fontaine, and is taken from an engraving after a painting by Nicolas Lancret. La Fontaine, basing his fable on Boccaccio's The Decameron, describes how the widower is so afraid that his inquisitive and naïve son will be distracted by women that, on being asked by his son what they were, he tells him that they are goslings. There are at least four services with different borders with this scene. For a similar plate with this border in the Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, see D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 218, and a copy of the print as fig. 217.

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