An encre-de-Chine 'Crucifixion' and a 'Resurrection' plate

CIRCA 1745

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An encre-de-Chine 'Crucifixion' and a 'Resurrection' plate
Circa 1745
Both decorated en grisaille heightened in gilding, the first plate with a scene of the 'Crucifixion' showing the centurions casting dice before the crucified Christ, flanked by the two thieves above the Virgin Mary, St. John and other mourners; the plate with the 'Resurrection' scene showing the risen Christ envelopped by clouds with an angel at his feet, above the sleeping soldiers, both surrounded by a border of scalework panels issuing foliate scrolls, strapwork and cornucopias (minute rim chips)
22.8 cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

For similar examples of the 'Crucifixion' plate, see F.& N. Hervout et Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, Paris, 1986, p. 266, no. 11.21 - 11.23; and D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, vol.I, p. 319, fig. 312. For a 'Resurrection' scene, see Beurdely, Porcelain of the East India Companies, 1962, p. 203, cat. 228; and Hervout et Bruneau, op. cit., p. 267, no. 11.26.

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