拍品 135
135
A FAMILLE ROSE 'FOUR ELEMENTS' PLATE, DEPICTING WATER
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 显示更多 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY The following four lots comprise a fine set of plates depicting 'The Four Elements', taken from a series of paintings by Francesco Albani (1578-1660), which were commissioned by Cardinal Maurice of Savoy and are now in the Turin Gallery.
A FAMILLE ROSE 'FOUR ELEMENTS' PLATE, DEPICTING WATER

CIRCA 1742

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'FOUR ELEMENTS' PLATE, DEPICTING WATER
CIRCA 1742
Depicting Galatea, a sea-nymph, in a shell-shaped chariot drawn by dolphins, being guided by a putti, two other putti grasping a shaded red and pink cloth which is billowing to form a canopy, sea-nymphs, tritons and other putti playing in the turbulent river and on the chariot, a reclining naked figure, possibly Acis, on a blue cloak on the river bank in the foreground observing the scene, within a gilt scrolling floral band at the rim with details picked out in iron-red and en grisaille
8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.) diam.
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拍品专文

See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, colour plate 13.94, p. 319 for a similar plate. Another, from the W. Martin-Hurst Collection is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, plate XXXIX (top left).