Lot 300
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A PORCELAIN PLATE
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A PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1827

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A PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1827
Circular, the centre painted with 'Les Petits Ramoneurs' after Louis Lépold Boilly, the gilt border with continuous band of ciselé floral lunettes, marked under base with blue overglaze factory mark, inscribed 'Les Petits Ramoneurs' and dated 1827
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner in Moscow in 1930.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The present plate is painted after Les Petits Ramoneurs by the French artist, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845). The work was included in Boilly's album of ninety-four caricatures, Recueil de grimaces, which was published between 1823 and 1828. Each hand-coloured lithograph in the suite depicts a group of five figures, each with a face drawn in an exaggerated expression. A comparable plate by the Imperial Porcelain Factory is painted after Boilly's Ah! le chic-en-lit, lit, lit, which was also included in Recueil de grimaces (N.B. von Wolf, (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 171, pl. 259).

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