CIRCA 1740

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'PEEPING TOM' PLATES
CIRCA 1740
Enamelled in soft pastel tones at the centre with a dark-skinned couple wearing classical robes seated in a rural setting, observed by a small boy peeping out from a bush in which he hides, within four iron-red, grisaille and gilt flower sprays at the border, the reverses with three similar sprays
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

An identical single plate is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.321, fig. 13.105. Another, from the collection of Angelo Castelo Branco Cerqueira Caldas, sold Sotheby's London, 8 May 1990, lot 211; and a further single example, from the J. Louis Binder collection, sold in these Rooms, 17 June 2003, lot 110.

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