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A Tournai 'camaïeu pourpre' cup and saucer
1763-1774, DEUXIEME PERIODE, BOTH WITH GILT CROSSED SWORDS AND FOUR STARS MARK
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A Tournai 'camaïeu pourpre' cup and saucer
1763-1774, DEUXIEME PERIODE, BOTH WITH GILT CROSSED SWORDS AND FOUR STARS MARK
Both painted with a purple italianiate landscape with wayfarers inspired by Hubert Robert, the edge enhanced in gilt, the cup with scrolled handle or anse rocaille (2)
Special notice
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
Lot Essay
For a related tea bowl and saucer see Exhibition catalogue, Porcelaine de Tournai, Arras, 1991, p. 89 ill. 122.
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