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See Arthur Lane, Italian Porcelain (1954), no. 28A for a plate of similar type.
CIRCA 1760
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A Venice (Le Nove) mythological plate
Circa 1760
The centre painted with a Turkish woman seated on a rock beneath drapery and proffering a flower to a man seated to the left, a Turkish man in the background holding a sceptre in a landscape, the well with iron-red ornament between yellow lines, the border with a garland of blue and pink drapery (star crack just above the center, rim chip at 12 o'clock, slight rubbing to centre)
9in. (23cm.) diam.
Circa 1760
The centre painted with a Turkish woman seated on a rock beneath drapery and proffering a flower to a man seated to the left, a Turkish man in the background holding a sceptre in a landscape, the well with iron-red ornament between yellow lines, the border with a garland of blue and pink drapery (star crack just above the center, rim chip at 12 o'clock, slight rubbing to centre)
9in. (23cm.) diam.