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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE BIBLICAL PLATE
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE BIBLICAL PLATE

CIRCA 1740

Details
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE BIBLICAL PLATE
Circa 1740
Painted in thick opaque enamels with Bathsheba at her toilette, a servant offering her her jewel casket and David on a balcony in the background blowing a horn, all within a lavish floral border
9in. (22.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The ambiguity of the Chinese depiction of Bathsheba and the fountain before her led to this subject being known as 'Christ in the Temple' until the discovery of a 1669 Old Testament print source by P. Le Petit, Paris. See Hervouet et Bruneau, op. cit., p. 262.