CIRCA 1745

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT BOWL
CIRCA 1745
Enamelled on one side with an oval medallion depicting a lady seated at her dressing-table wearing a violet robe unfastened at the front, and pink bandeau in her hair, within a chain-pattern surround, the opposite side enamelled with a delicate floral spray, the interior with an unusual puce rococo scroll band below the rim
5 5/8 in. (14.4 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

For a teabowl and saucer from this service, from the Mottahedah Collection and before that from the Martin-Hurst Collection, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, p. 526, no. 537, where the authors suggest that this scene may be taken from an engraving after Jean Etienne Liotard. See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 127, fig. 6.39 for a coffee-cup in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the authors inform us that the anonymous 18th Century painting with this scene is in the Town Hall Museum in La Rochelle.

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