CIRCA 1760

Details

A RARE FAMILLE ROSE AND GRISAILLE 'CATHERINE GUNNING' PLATE
Circa 1760
The centre finely and delicately painted en grisaille with a circular medallion enclosing a half-length portrait of a lady, wearing a wide-brimmed hat tied under the neck with a wide bow, her dress cut low on the bodice with frilled bands crossing her chest, on a finely stippled ground within a narrow scrolling foliage band, the border enamelled in the famille rose palette with scattered sprigs of flowers, rim hairline
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

François Hervouët (inventory no.657); Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1587 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-137).

Literature

F. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig.6.7.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This portrait is probably after Liotard, who is known to have painted her sister, Mary, who became Countess of Coventry. Her other sister, Elizabeth, first married the Duke of Hamilton, and then the Duke of Argyll. All three sisters had a Chinese export dinner service made in circa 1760, and an example of each is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, 1986, p.117, figs.6.5, 6.6 and 6.7.

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