Lot 85
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A PAIR OF RARE GRISAILLE AND GILT MEISSEN-STYLE PLATES
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A PAIR OF RARE GRISAILLE AND GILT MEISSEN-STYLE PLATES

CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF RARE GRISAILLE AND GILT MEISSEN-STYLE PLATES
CIRCA 1750
Each decorated at the centre with a lady seated on a chair stroking a pet monkey attached to her wrist by a gilt chain, within a rococo surround, the border with two landscape cartouches alternating with two bird cartouches, one minor underside rim chip
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam. (2)
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Lot Essay

The original print source has not yet been identified. The monkey is symbolic of sexual desire and lust in European art and this service may well have had erotic connotations to those who used it. See the coffee-cup and saucer from this rare service in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, exhibited Chinese Export Porcelain, Hong Kong, 30 November 1989 - 27 February 1990, no. 83. See also the saucer illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 136, fig. 6.64.

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