CIRCA 1760

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A CHELSEA OVAL PLATTER
Circa 1760
The center painted after Boucher with Le Pannier Mysterieuse, a shepherd and shepherdess in a rural landscape, the youth bringing his sweetheart a basket of flowers, a young boy spying on the couple from behind the urn at the right, the border with feather-moulded band at the rim enriched in gilt
29 cm. long

Provenance

The Property of a Lady; Sotheby's, London, 17 July 1951.
With The Antique Porcelain Company, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1992, lot 277.

Exhibited

London, The Chelsea Exhibition, 1948, lot 46.

Lot Essay

The decoration on the present platter is taken from Reni Gaillard's engraving after the Boucher painting in which the scene is witnessed by the young lady's dog and not a spying youth. See Pierette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, p. 258, no. 1030; also Aubrey Toppin, "The Origin of some Ceramic Designs, English Ceramics Circle Transactions, No. 10, vol. 2, 1948, Pl. XCVIII. Fulda and Frankenthal figure groups of the same subject dating circa 1770 and 1777 are also known.

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