TWO SMALL GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PIECES
CIRCA 1735
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TWO SMALL GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PIECES
CIRCA 1735
The first a saucer with a couple holding hands, she holding a gilt flower in her left hand, a scrolling foliate band at the rim repeated on the domed cover; the second a cream jug and cover with a couple conversing, a teacup in her hand
4 1/8 in. (10.3 cm.) diameter, the saucer (3)
Provenance
with the Chinese Porcelain Company (the first)
J. Louis Binder Collection (the first)
The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 173 (the second)
Exhibited
Virginia Museum, 1981-1982 (the second)
Lot Essay
A saucer-dish from the same service as the present cream-jug is in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht and is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, op. cit., p. 156, fig. 7.44.
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