CIRCA 1740

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A famille rose 'European subject' teabowl, coffee-cup and a pair of saucers
Circa 1740
Enamelled with a scene from La Fable de la Fontaine (La Laitière et le pot au lait), a maiden dressed in a pink and white dress balancing a pail on her head as she climbs over a wooden fence, in the distance the facade of a small town, encircled at the rim by a twisted-rope pattern border reserved with small vignettes, the original erotic subjectmatter on the reverse rubbed off, one saucer repaired, crack and small frits (4)

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that this subjectmatter is after a tale of de la Fontaine: La laitière et le pot au lait, although the exact source has not yet been identified, see F.& N. Hervoët et Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 200, nr. 9.19.

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