CIRCA 1740

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A FAMILLE ROSE MEISSEN-STYLE PLATE
CIRCA 1740
Delicately enamelled in a central multi-lobed panel with two elegant ladies in conversation in the foreground, a walled city behind them to one side and boats on a river to the other, all reserved on a gilt scrolling foliage ground at the well, the border with iron-red and gilt shell-scroll
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar plate with plain border from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, p. 369, no. 361, where the authors suggest that the view is taken from an early 18th Century print, possibly after a Flemish original. Another very similar plate is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 355, fig. 15.45. Another plate, again with plain border, from the J. Louis Binder Collection was sold in these Rooms, 17 June 2003, lot 63.

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