MID 18TH CENTURY

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A rare Dutch-decorated saucer dish
MID 18TH CENTURY
Enamelled to the central medallion with a European dressed lady exposing one leg and seated between two vases of flowers, her head turned to smell a flower, to her right two dogs and a townscape in the horizon, inscribed below with 'De Ruek' (The Smell), the rounded sides encircled by petal-shaped panels enclosing each a flower-stem, minute rim frits
21 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A comparable Dutch-decorated dish is in the collection of Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. It is inscribed with 'Tge Sight' (The Sight) which indicates they must have formed part of a series. See Hervouët et Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 370, fig. 16.17.

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