CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF RARE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATES
CIRCA 1750
Each finely enamelled with a central roundel depicting a lady holding a basket of flowers, wearing a blue bodice and pink skirt raised to reveal a pleated white underskirt, a wreath of flowers in her hair, within a narrow continuous band of flowers in the well and iron-red and gilt linked florets at the rim
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

For a very similar dish with this design, see E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 17, where the author identifies this figure as being part of the group of figures in the engraving by Larmessin after a drawing by Lancret entitled 'Le Printemps'. Another very similar plate, but with additional gilt lacework at the border is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 135, fig. 6.60. A plate depicting a more complete scene showing three figures in a garden and the engraving are illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p.55, figs. 30 and 31; and another plate by Hervouët and Bruneau, op.cit., p.164, fig. 7.65.

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