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    Asian Export Art

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    16 November 1999

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    • A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'ROYAL PO
    Lot 368

    A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'ROYAL PORTRAIT' PLATE

    CIRCA 1750 OR 1760

    Price realised

    GBP 6,325

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 5,000

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    A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'ROYAL PORTRAIT' PLATE
    circa 1750 or 1760
    Enamelled with a medallion portrait of King Frederick V of Denmark, wearing royal clothes and jewels before clouds, the wide rim with an elaborate scrolling acanthus and cartouch design with winged cherubs touched with blue enamels, minute rim chip
    9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

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    Lot Essay

    See footnote to the previous lot.

    Preissler's engraving is illustrated by B. L. Grandjean, Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, 1965, fig.36, together with a plate with this portrait in the Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, fig. 35 and p.40; the plate is also illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, 1962, p.200, cat.215. Another is illustrated by F. and N. Hervout and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes Dcor Occidental, 1986, fig.9.101, p.228.

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