Lot Essay
The scene copies a print by C. J. Visscher de Jonge, a Dutch engraver, who based his design on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651).
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CIRCA 1750
Details
A GRISAILLE, IRON-RED AND GILT 'LE PECHEUR' PLATE
Circa 1750
Decorated at the centre en grisaille with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding a rod, with his two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk and two birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated predominantly in gilt with details in grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with florettes, all on a cell-pattern ground below a narrow band of classic scroll at the rim, crack restored
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.
Circa 1750
Decorated at the centre en grisaille with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding a rod, with his two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk and two birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated predominantly in gilt with details in grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with florettes, all on a cell-pattern ground below a narrow band of classic scroll at the rim, crack restored
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Miss W. Elin; Sotheby's, London, 15 October 1974, lot 217 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-18).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-18).
Special notice
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