Lot 339
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A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES
The Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection
A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790

Details
A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790
Each enameled in blue, grisaille, sepia, iron-red, and gilt with a central roundel depicting the profile portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet tied with a ribbon, conjoined to the profile of an elderly bespectacled matron, the border with a blue enamel leaf band
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Cohen & Cohen, London.

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Lot Essay

This design is taken from a series of similar portraits, first illustrated in a comic print and then copied on to English ceramics, where they have been given titles such as 'Grandma/Miss' and 'Before and After Marriage.'
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