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Painted at the centre after an early eighteenth century European print emblematic of the God of Wine with Bacchus holding a cup and a bunch of grapes in a room within a medallion with shells and surrounded by large branches of vine, the border moulded with a band of gadroons, rim restored
14 7/8in. (38cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay
See the Victoria and Albert Museum example of this design, illustrated by F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., no.13.9, p.294