CIRCA 1740 AND LATER

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An encre-de-Chine 'card players' teapot and cover
CIRCA 1740 AND LATER
The globular teapot and cover painted after an engraving in the style of David Teniers, with a group of cardplayers around a table under a tree and chickens in the foreground, 13.5 cm. high; a mythological tea bowl and saucer decorated with Venus and Cupid in embrace; and a European silver-mounted milk-jug; a famille rose silver-mounted tea bowl and saucer, a mandarin tea bowl, and a 'Amsterdam bont' bowl, 14.8 cm. diam., some damages (6)

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Lot Essay

The scene at the centre of this plate is after an engraving in the style of David Teniers' 'Fetes Champetres' and plates with this design were produced in various palettes including en grisaille and gilt, en camaieu and more rarely in polychrome enamels such as on the present lot. Very few of this last group are published: see F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, colour plate 4.57, p.99 for an identical plate. D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.II, no.366 illustrated a grisaille and gilt plate from the Mottahedeh Collection. A version en camaieu from the Eduardo Malta Collection is illustrated by Lloyd Hyde, Silva and Malta, Chinese Porcelain for the European Market, 1956, pl.XXVII, p.81.

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