A EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE

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A EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE
CIRCA 1745

The center painted in famille rose enamels with a dryad in pink robes recoiling from the embrace of a satyr, a European village with figures and ships visible beyond, Meissen style gilt borders with tiny pink landscape vignettes (tiny chips filled)--9 1/16in. (23cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., p. 317, illustrate three variations of this scene, which is after a print by Claude Duflos.