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A LARGE EUROPEAN SUBJECT MUG
MID-18TH CENTURY
Of bell shape, painted with an interior scene of a gentlemen seated before a bed, smoking a pipe, his lover undressing by a candle-lit table, the reverse with flowers growing from weathered rocks, with strap handle
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For the same subject en grisaille and with the inscription MARETIE VAN BEME 1752, see Hervouët and Bruneau, op. cit., p. 178, pl. 7.106.

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