A famille rose 'European Subject' teapot and cover
A famille rose 'European Subject' teapot and cover

CIRCA 1770

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A famille rose 'European Subject' teapot and cover
Circa 1770
Painted on each side of the globular body with an amorous couple in 18th Century European dress accompagnied by a small dog, seated under a tree in a hilly landscape with a village in the background, the man leaning against the lady to give her a baise-main, the landscape repeated on the domed cover with knop finial (some restorations, small crack to the cover)
13.6 cm. high
Literature
F. & N. Hervout et Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, Paris, 1986, p.164 fig. 7.67.

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