CIRCA 1750-60

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A RARE GRISAILLE, GILT AND BLUE ENAMEL 'ROYAL PORTRAIT' PLATE
CIRCA 1750-60
The centre decorated en grisaille with a portrait of King Frederick V of Denmark, wearing chains of office over an ermine collar and a robe embossed with crowns, within a band of gilt spearheads in the well and a du Paquier-style border with cartouches of winged cherubs, heightened in gilt and blue enamel
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

See footnote to the preceding lot.

Preissler's engraving of the King is illustrated by B. L. Grandjean, Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, 1965, fig. 36, together with a plate with this portrait in the Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen as fig. 35 and p. 40; the plate is also illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, p. 200, cat. 215. Another is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 228, fig. 9.101. An identical plate was sold in these Rooms, 16 November 1999, lot 368.

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