QIANLONG

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Two grisaille and gilt 'European-subject' plates
Qianlong
One decorated en grisaille to the central roundel with a young lady in her bedroom preparing herself for the night, accompanied by her dog, the border with a continuing band of gilt foliate scrolls, star- and rim-crack; and a 'mythological' plate paintet with the beautiful nymph Theophane who was captured and transformed into a ewe by Neptune, within borders of scrollwork, frits
22.4 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

For an example of the European subject plate see Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 126, fig. 6.37.
For an example of the mythological plate see Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 305, fig. 13.53.

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