CIRCA 1760

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A 'calcutta tiger hunt' plate
Circa 1760
Finely enamelled and gilt with European hunters holding spears and rifles and their hounds attacking a saber-toothed tiger on a riverbank, the smoke from their guns partially obscurring their prey and a caped figure on a porch at the side, a landscape with a European town in the background, below the rim cartouches enclosing puce vignettes of Western landscapes and a famille rose bird reserved on a gilt floral ground
22.7 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar plate has been sold at Christie's New York, 21 January 1999, lot 88.
For a similar plate see Hervouët et Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, Paris, 1986, p. 349, pl. 15.26

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