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THREE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATES
THREE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATES
THREE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATES
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THREE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATES

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740-1760

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THREE CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATES
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740-1760
Each painted in famille rose enamels with a figural genre scene at its center, the borders painted with flowers, fruiting branches or scrollwork, comprising:

A plate with peasants playing cards and drinking by a river, after David Teniers' Fêtes Champêtre, a gilt and painted spiraling strapwork band at the cavetto
A soup-plate with an elegant couple in a Rococo-style curvilinear garden, an attendant pouring a drink for the gentleman
A plate with a two gentlemen and a lady at a music party in a garden, the gentlemen playing a lute and a pair of clappers, the lady playing a triangle
9 1⁄8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter, the plate with musicians
Provenance
With Eymerey & Cie., Paris (the plate after Teniers).
With S. Marchant & Son, London (the plate after Teniers and the soup-plate).
With Cohen & Cohen, London (the plate with the music party).

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Lot Essay

A plate with the 'music party' scene is illustrated in D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, London, 1994, p. 88, no. 75, where the author notes that it is one version of at least six scenes of "musicians in gently amorous situations – all after European originals of the period 1735-50." Several examples of these are illustrated in F. & N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, pp. 184-185, nos. 8.4-8.8. Hervouët and Bruneau also illustrate a plate painted with the same courting-couple scene as appears on the present soup plate, op. cit., p. 144, no. 7.9.

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