CIRCA 1750

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'NATIVITY' PLATE
Circa 1750
Painted at the centre with a scene of the Adoration of the Shepherds, Mary, Joseph and the Three Shepherds surrounding the baby Jesus in a crib, a donkey asleep in the foreground
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 13 May 1987, lot 1133 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-135).

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Lot Essay

These biblical designs are after engravings by the Amsterdam engraver Jan Luiken (1649-1712) and were included in a Lutheran Bible printed at the beginning of the 18th Century. A very similar 'Nativity' plate is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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