CIRCA 1740

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' PLATE
Circa 1740
Brightly enamelled and gilt at the centre with a European couple seated facing each other on a terrace, he playing an oboe, and she stretching up her right arm to feed a parrot which is perched on a hoop between them, all within a rococo shaped cartouche embellished with foliage, the border with bianco-sopra-bianco scrolling foliage reserved with four landscape vignettes en camaïeu rose
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 27 May 1980, lot 946 (to Dreesmann). Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-110).

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Lot Essay

A similar plate is in the British Museum, exhibited Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, Taibei, 1994, catalogue no. 67, p.158; another in the Costa Collection, Lisbon, is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig.8.8.; another, is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, colour plate E, p.80; and a teabowl and saucer in the Hodroff Collection, is illustrated by D. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no.203, pp.178 and 179.

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