Lot Essay
See Hervouët and Bruneau, op.cit., p. 126, fig. 6.37 for a further version, similar to the present lot but with a dog lying at her feet and the lady is without stockings.
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CIRCA 1745
Details
A GRISAILLE, GILT AND SEPIA EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATE
CIRCA 1745
Decorated in a central roundel en grisaille with a scene related to the previous lot, but omitting the gentleman and leaving the chair empty, on the floor beside the bed is a chamber-pot, and the lady, having put on stockings, is getting dressed, the rest of her clothes piled up on the table, within a sepia and gilt linked C-scroll surround, gilt linked leaf-scrolls forming cartouches at the border
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1745
Decorated in a central roundel en grisaille with a scene related to the previous lot, but omitting the gentleman and leaving the chair empty, on the floor beside the bed is a chamber-pot, and the lady, having put on stockings, is getting dressed, the rest of her clothes piled up on the table, within a sepia and gilt linked C-scroll surround, gilt linked leaf-scrolls forming cartouches at the border
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
Provenance
With John Sparks Ltd.
François Hervouët, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1580.
François Hervouët, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1987, lot 1580.
Literature
F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 126, fig.6.36.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium