CIRCA 1740

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE MEISSEN-STYLE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE
CIRCA 1740
Delicately enamelled in a central multi-lobed panel with two elegant ladies in conversation in the foreground, a walled city behind them to one side and boats on a river to the other, all reserved on a gilt scrolling foliage ground at the well, the border undecorated except for narrow gilt lines at the rim, minute underside rim nicks
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased from The Chinese Porcelain Company.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

An identical plate from the Mottahedeh collection, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, p. 369, no.361, where the authors suggest that the view is taken from an early 18th Century print, possibly after a Flemish original. Another very similar plate is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 355, fig. 15.45.

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