CIRCA 1750

Details

A pair of grisaille and gilt 'Le Pecheur' plates
Circa 1750
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a riverbank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated primarily in gilt with details en grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with gilt florettes, all on a cell-pattern ground below a classic-scroll band at the rim, small repairs
22.7 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The scene copies a print by C. J. Visscher de Jonge, a Dutch engraver, who based his design on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651). See D. S. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 207 for an illustration of this print, together with two plates with this design as figs. 206 and 298. A very similar plate to the present lot is in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989/90, Catalogue, no.44. Another almost identical plate from the Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann collection was sold in our London Rooms, 10 April 2002, lot 425.

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