Lot Essay
Cf. the small hexafoil dish with this design in the A. Costa Collection, Lisbon, illustrated by F. et N. Hervouët et Y. Bruneau, op.cit., p.354, no.15.40, where the authors have called it 'Le buveur'
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' PLATES
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Each finely enamelled in the centre with a shaped panel of a young man seated at a table with one arm stretched toward two small figures in the window, a large beer barrel in the foreground, within a leafy border between gilt spear-heads and dense scrolling floral bands in the well and at the rim
9in. (23cm.) diam. (2)
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Each finely enamelled in the centre with a shaped panel of a young man seated at a table with one arm stretched toward two small figures in the window, a large beer barrel in the foreground, within a leafy border between gilt spear-heads and dense scrolling floral bands in the well and at the rim
9in. (23cm.) diam. (2)