Lot Essay
cf. Exhibition catalogue Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Hong Kong, 1989, nr.83; Hervouët & Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p.136
CIRCA 1750
Details
An encre-de-Chine 'European Subject' saucer,
circa 1750
Painted en grisaille and gilt with a seated lady leaning on a ledge with a monkey seated on her lap and tied with a chain to her arm, surrounded by a Louis XV-style strapwork border with feathery and rocaille scrollwork (rim frittings)
13cm. diam.
circa 1750
Painted en grisaille and gilt with a seated lady leaning on a ledge with a monkey seated on her lap and tied with a chain to her arm, surrounded by a Louis XV-style strapwork border with feathery and rocaille scrollwork (rim frittings)
13cm. diam.