A GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATE
CIRCA 1745

Painted in the center with a seamstress sewing a lace cloth before a draped window, ships visible in a harbor beyond, all in a gilt-edged flower form panel reserved on a grisaille cell ground around the well, the rim with a grisaille diaper border (faint star crack)--9in. (23cm.) diam.