CIRCA 1735

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN-SUBJECT' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1735
Finely enamellled at the centre in a shaped cartouche with a seated elegant lady embroidering a canvas stretched in a frame, within a blue Y-pattern surround, saucer cracked and rim chip restored

Provenance

With Salomon Stodel, Amsterdam, no.C.E.30, 1993, acquired by Mrs. Anton Dreesmann as a gift for
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-157).

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Lot Essay

The original print for this design is unknown. A similar teabowl and saucer is in the Bal Collection, in the Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, no.211. Another is in the Museum Boymans, Bulletin VII, no.2, p.67. A third from the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, no.271.

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