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A Paris (Nast) tortoiseshell-ground coffee can and saucer
painted en grisaille with a classical scene within a circular cartouche reserved on a grey and brown mottled lustre ground gilt with a cracked-ice field, beneath a gilt egg and dart border, the cup with iron-red mark, circa 1790 (very minor rubbing to gilding)
See colour plate 4
painted en grisaille with a classical scene within a circular cartouche reserved on a grey and brown mottled lustre ground gilt with a cracked-ice field, beneath a gilt egg and dart border, the cup with iron-red mark, circa 1790 (very minor rubbing to gilding)
See colour plate 4
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