THREE GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATES

CIRCA 1740-50

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THREE GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATES
circa 1740-50
The first decorated at the centre with a lady dancing with a staff in one hand and a wreath in the other, the broad rim with a border of alternating cornucopiae of flowers and shaped cartouches containing a diaper design, small rim chip; a shallow soup-plate decorated with a European gentleman leading his wife riding side-saddle on a bullock, followed by a naked boy in a rural landscape, within a spearhead band at the rim; and a plate with 'The Choice of Hercules', the god depicted as a young man standing between two female figures, Virtue and Pleasure, within an iron-red and gilt foliate band at the rim, minute chip
all about 9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (3)

Lot Essay

An identical plate to the first is illustrated by F. and N. Hervout and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes Dcor Occidental, 1986, fig.13.31, p.299, where the author suggests this may represent Calliope, the Muse of Poetry, who was often portrayed holding a laurel crown.

A very similar plate to the second in the lot is also illustrated by Hervout and Bruneau, ibid., fig.9.17. p.199.

The scene on the third plate is inspired by a painting of 1712 by Paolo de Matteis, illustrating an essay by the Earl of Shaftesbury, 'A Notion of the Historical Draught of Hercules'. An example, with different border is illustrated by Hervout and Bruneau, ibid., fig.13.81, p.313.

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