A DATED EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE painted en grisaille and gilt with a central scene depicting a gentleman seated in a bedchamber beside a lady undressing, bearing her breasts, beneath the inscription Wouterverhage and above the date 1752, all within a narrow band of gilt scrolls in the well, the border with stylised peacocks and panels of quilting alternating with landscape cartouches (hairline crack), circa 1752

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A DATED EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE painted en grisaille and gilt with a central scene depicting a gentleman seated in a bedchamber beside a lady undressing, bearing her breasts, beneath the inscription Wouterverhage and above the date 1752, all within a narrow band of gilt scrolls in the well, the border with stylised peacocks and panels of quilting alternating with landscape cartouches (hairline crack), circa 1752
23cm. diam.

Lot Essay

F. et. N. Hervouet and Y. Bruneau, op. cit., p. 178, pl. 7.106 illustrate a very similar plate, also dated 1752, though with a different inscription; they suggest the lady is a courtesan

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