CIRCA 1740-50

Details

A GRISAILLE, IRON-RED, SEPIA AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE
CIRCA 1740-50
Finely decorated at the centre primarily en grisaille with details picked out in flesh-tones with a couple reclining under a canopied terrace beside a chair, their arms around each other's shoulders, he bearded wearing a hat and boots, a riverscape in the distance, within iron-red and gilt spearheads in the well and sepia wave-like lappets at the rim with gilt detailing
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Luisa Feltrinelli Doria no. 385, sold Sotheby's London, 7 November 1995, lot 126 (part).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 165, fig. 7.70 for an identical plate. Another illustrated by J. G. Veiga, Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, London, 1989, pl.125, where the author suggests that the scene might be taken from an engraving by Vinckebooms.

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