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    The J.Louis Binder Collection of Chinese Export Art

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    17 June 2003

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    • A GRISAILLE AND GILT MYTHOLOGI
    Lot 142

    A GRISAILLE AND GILT MYTHOLOGICAL PLATE

    CIRCA 1745

    Price realised

    GBP 2,032

    Estimate

    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

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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.

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    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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