A RARE PAIR OF SILVERED FAMILLE ROSE PLATES

CIRCA 1745

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A RARE PAIR OF SILVERED FAMILLE ROSE PLATES
CIRCA 1745
Each enamelled with a Chinese scene of mothers and boys, one lady gazing into a mirror and the others watching two of the boys wrestle on a rug, all within a shaped cartouche edged in gilt vine, the rim with delicate floral sprays and ribbon-tied blue serpent motifs, all on a ground silvered, probably in Europe
8 7/8 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

A silvered plate of this pattern from the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard and Ayers (op. cit.), vol. II, p. 527, and sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 167; another was in the collection of John T. Dorrance, Jr., sold Sotheby's New York, 20 October 1989, lot 369. These silvered plates reflect the prevailing taste for golddekor on Meissen plates, which, as Howard & Ayers write, was fashionable embellishment added at Augsburg in the 1725-40 period.

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