CIRCA 1750

Details

A GRISAILLE, SEPIA AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TANKARD
CIRCA 1750
Decorated on the bell-shaped body primarily en grisaille but with sepia, flesh-tones and gilt details, with three figures sleeping below a tree being approached by another carrying a long staff, the handle with a ruyi-shaped moulded terminal, handle chips restored
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Provenance

Purchased Sotheby's London, 10 May 1994, lot 132.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This scene used to be thought to depict Christ discovering His sleeping Disciples, but it is after a painting by Rubens in the Imperial Belvedere Palace in Vienna entitled 'Cimon finds Iphigenia with three Companions Sleeping under a Tree'. See Lot 152 for a pair of crested guglets with this design.

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