A BLUE AND WHITE 'MUSICIANS' DISH

CIRCA 1700

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'MUSICIANS' DISH
Circa 1700
Painted in bright tones of cobalt with three European court figures playing their instruments in the open air, the lady wearing high headdress and décolleté gown, seated on a Chinese bench at a pedestal table, the gentlemen with long, curly wigs and long frockcoats, all contained within petal-shaped panels with Chinese landscape vignettes, the back with large boughs of bamboo
13½in. (34.2cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Garland collection, bearing a paper label reading MR. GARLAND. 236
By repute, the Morgan collection, bearing typewritten label, now worn, noting that it was Morgan no. 470(?)
An American private collection

Lot Essay

After a Nicholas Bonnart engraving titled Symphonie du tympanum, du luth et de la flute d'Allemagne, which bore a verse lauding the joys of music when all play on time, and noting how even sweeter it is when l'Amour conducts. For a very similar dish see Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., p. 189. Another was in the Mottahedeh collection, illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., no. 35a, and sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 93

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