CIRCA 1740

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A BLUE ENAMEL, GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740
The semi-eggshell porcelain delicately decorated primarily en grisaille with a lady suckling her baby within an oval panel, repeated on either side of the teabowl, reserved on a blue enamel scrolling hibiscus ground within a band of gilt flower and leaf scroll at the rims
the saucer 4¾ in. (12 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 123, fig. 6.23 for a plate with a possibly slightly later version of this scene, which the authors have discovered is taken from an engraving by Claude Duflos.

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