Lot Essay
The three roundels probably depict three of the five senses, smell, sound and sight
Details
A CANTON ENAMEL EUROPEAN SUBJECT BLACK-GROUND CUP
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
The sides decorated with three vignettes of European subjects, a courting couple, she holding a flower, another couple with the man blowing a horn and the woman playing cymbals, the third with a man and a woman viewing a heavenly apparition, all reserved on a black ground below a keyfret border, cracks, some restoration--3 5/8 in. (9.4cm.) diam.
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
The sides decorated with three vignettes of European subjects, a courting couple, she holding a flower, another couple with the man blowing a horn and the woman playing cymbals, the third with a man and a woman viewing a heavenly apparition, all reserved on a black ground below a keyfret border, cracks, some restoration--3 5/8 in. (9.4cm.) diam.
Provenance
Hilda and Harry Garner Collection
Bluett, London
Bluett, London