CIRCA 1750

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT SAUCER
CIRCA 1750
Decorated at the centre en grisaille with a lady seated on her gallant's lap, her dress open to reveal her breasts, each smoking a long pipe, within a wide band of octagonal cell-pattern reserved with three floral cartouches, and a gilt floral scroll band at the rim
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased from S. Marchant & Son Ltd.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

For a teapot from this service, see Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 165, fig. 7.73, where the authors comment that this scene is after an engraving by Bernard Picart of 1705, in which the lady holds a glass, not a pipe. The same figures have been painted on Meissen porcelain at Augsburg.

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