Lot 15
15
A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' PLATE painted at the centre with the 'embroideress', a lady seated by a window embroidering, her chest uncovered, within a petal-shaped roundel reserved on a cell-pattern ground, the border with a narrow band of trellis-pattern (small rim chips), circa 1750-1770

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' PLATE painted at the centre with the 'embroideress', a lady seated by a window embroidering, her chest uncovered, within a petal-shaped roundel reserved on a cell-pattern ground, the border with a narrow band of trellis-pattern (small rim chips), circa 1750-1770
22.7cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The subject is possibly after an engraving by Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Cf. J. G. Phillips, op. cit., p. 75, pl. 9 for a dish painted with the same subject and p. 140, pl. 58 for a tea service. Cf. also F. et N. Hervouet et Y. Bruneau, op. cit., p. 131, figs. 6.47, 6.48, 6.49 and D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., vol. II, p. 271

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