CIRCA 1775

Details

A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'KING OF NAPLES' OVAL DISH
CIRCA 1775
Finely and brightly enamelled with a distinguished gentleman and his aide offering refreshment to a field-labourer wearing an animal-skin cloak, other labourers in a corn field looking on, all below a composite floral wreath at the border
8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

Purchased from Roger Keverne Ltd.

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Lot Essay

For a slightly larger oval dish with this design, see Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 220, fig. 9.76, where the authors inform us that this is taken from an engraving by Martinet, although only part was used by the Chinese artist. They suggest that it depicts Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, King of Naples, who used to take pleasure in going into the countryside and offering wine to the peasants.

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