CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'COIN TOSSING' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
Circa 1760
Each brightly enamelled with a central roundel depicting a European gallant tossing coins into the lap of a seated courtesan, who wears a pink décolleté dress with green underskirt, within a puce enamel scroll border with pendant floral sprigs, two saucers and one bowl cracked (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 and 15 January 1974, lot 432 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-13).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The scene is probably after an engraving by B. Picart. A teabowl and saucer, with wavy rim, is in the Rijksmuseum, illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no.346, p.295. A quatrefoil-shaped bowl with this design, from the collection of L. Vigneau, Paris, is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 177, fig.7.105.

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