A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PLATES

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PLATES
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Delicately enamelled with a central quatrefoil panel of a lady playing a qin beside a two-drawer cupboard reserved on a grisaille trellis-pattern ground reserved with a lotus scroll in the well, the border with aubergine floral panels alternating with iron-red and gilt floral panels reserved on a plain grisaille ground originally silvered
9in. (22.8cm.) diam. (2)

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Cf. a similar example from the Martin Hurst Collection illustrated by G. Williamson, op. cit., p. 152; the single plate in the British Museum, formerly in the Sir A. W. Franks Collection, illustrated by P. Conner, op.cit., no.108, p.78; and the pair sold in London, 30 October 1987, lot 734

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