CIRCA 1740

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A SET OF THREE RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'CARD PLAYERS' TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
Circa 1740
Each enamelled with two figures seated at a wooden table playing cards watched by another seated figure and a fourth standing holding a pipe, to their right a further seated figure holds his wine goblet in one hand and his other arm around the waist of the serving wench, in the foreground cockerels, a hen and her chicks are feeding, chips, two saucers cracked (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 9 February 1981, lot 957.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-116).

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Lot Essay

The scene is after an engraving in the style of David Teniers 'Fêtes Champêtres'. Services with this design were made in various palettes including en grisaille and gilt, en camaïeu rose (see lot 428) and more rarely polychrome as in the present lot. Very few polychrome pieces are published: see Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.99, colour plate 5.57 for a plate. Another plate was sold Christie's, London, 13 November 2001, lot 279.

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