CIRCA 1750

Details

A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'LE PECHEUR' PLATE
CIRCA 1750
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated primarily in gilt with details en grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with gilt florettes, all on a cell-pattern ground below a classic-scroll band at the rim
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased from Earle D. Vandekar Ltd.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The scene copies a print by C. J. Visscher de Jonge, a Dutch engraver, who based his design on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651). See D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 207 for an illustration of this print, together with two plates with this design as figs. 206 and 298. A very similar plate to the present lot is in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989/90, Catalogue no.44. Another almost identical plate from the Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann collection was sold in these Rooms, 10 April 2002, lot 425.

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