A EUROPEAN SUBJECT TEAPOT STAND AND TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1765

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A EUROPEAN SUBJECT TEAPOT STAND AND TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1765
The hexafoil stand painted in iron-red camau<->eu with a fox hunting scene, 'Going out in the Morning' within gilt rim, the cup and saucer with iron-red painting of an amorous couple in a garden, a putto in flight above
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide, the stand (3)

Lot Essay

See C.J.A. Jörg and J Van Campen, op. cit., London, 1997, p. 294, no. 343, for a saucer with identical decoration, after N. le Mire's illustration for Masson de Pezay's poem Zèlis au Bain, published in 1763.

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