CIRCA 1740-50

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A PAIR OF GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT PLATES
CIRCA 1740-50
Each decorated at the centre primarily en grisaille with details picked out in flesh tones with a couple reclining under a canopied terrace beside a chair, their arms around each other's shoulders, he bearded wearing a hat and boots, a riverscape in the distance, a band of iron-red and gilt shell-scroll at the border, one restored
9 in. (23 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 165, fig. 7.70 for a plate with similar central design and a different border. Another is illustrated by J. G. Veiga, Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, London, 1989, pl. 125, where the author suggested that the scene might be taken from an engraving by Vinckebooms. A plate with this different border from the J. Louis Binder collection was sold in these Rooms, 17 June 2003, lot 190.

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