CIRCA 1750

细节

A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'PROVENDER FOR THE MONASTRY' SAUCER
CIRCA 1750
Decorated at the centre en grisaille with a monk smuggling a woman through the gates of a monastry by hiding her within a sheaf of corn strapped to his back, the rim with a band of gilt spearheads, hairline
5 1/8 in. (13.1 cm.) diam.

来源

Christie's New York, 23 September 1988, lot 367 (part).

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

This design has been taken from an illustration to a poem in a broadsheet which was printed in circa 1742 for B. Dickinson, The Corner of Bell-Savage Inn, Ludgate Hill. This attracted attention from both those with anti-Catholic and anti-Jacobite inclinations and it soon became a popular subject-matter copied on porcelain not only in Jingdezhen, but also at Meissen, Chelsea and Frankenthal. See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, pp. 366 and 367, no. 358 for the Mottahedeh bowl from this service, together with the broadsheet illustration as no. 358b. A milk-jug and cover, is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, no. 7.114, which was sold Sotheby's London, 3 November 1987, lot 828. A teapot and cover, formerly in the Comte de Bondy Collection, Paris, is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 204, cat. 232.