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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT 'CARD PLAYERS' PLATE
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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT 'CARD PLAYERS' PLATE

CIRCA 1740

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT 'CARD PLAYERS' PLATE
Circa 1740
Finely enamelled at the centre with two figures seated at a table playing cards watched by another seated figure and a fourth standing holding a pipe, to their right a further seated figure holds his wine goblet in one hand and his other arm embracing the waist of the serving wench, in the foreground cockerels, a hen and her chicks feeding, the well with an unusual gilt, black and green enamel spiral band interrupted by gilt pomegranate-shaped motifs and the border with four delicately enamelled rose and peach sprays
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

The scene at the centre of this plate is after an engraving in the style of David Teniers' 'Fetes Champetres' and plates with this design were produced in various palettes including en grisaille and gilt, en camaieu and more rarely in polychrome enamels such as on the present lot. Very few of this last group are published: see F. and N. Hervoüet and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, colour plate 4.57, p.99 for an identical plate. D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.II, no.366 illustrated a grisaille and gilt plate from the Mottahedeh Collection. A version en camaieu from the Eduardo Malta Collection is illustrated by Lloyd Hyde, Silva and Malta, Chinese Porcelain for the European Market, 1956, pl.XXVII, p.81.

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