Lot 142
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A GRISAILLE AND GILT MYTHOLOGICAL PLATE
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A GRISAILLE AND GILT MYTHOLOGICAL PLATE

CIRCA 1745

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT MYTHOLOGICAL PLATE
CIRCA 1745
Boldly decorated en grisaille at the centre with Aurora in her chariot drawn by two winged horses amongst clouds, the well with gilt spearheads and the border with four valentine-pattern cartouches of love-birds beside an altar alternating with hounds beside a garlanded tree
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Purchased Sotheby's Monaco, 18 June 1988, lot 1574.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

See Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 294, fig. 13.10 for a very similar plate. An armorial version with the arms of Humbertson is illustrated by D. S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 334.

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