Sale 6731
London
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17 June 2003
Price realised
GBP 4,541
Estimate
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PLATE FOR THE INDIAN MARKET CIRCA 1770-80 Enamelled at the centre with a mahout astride his elephant within a leaf-scroll surround and spearheads in the well, the border unusually with six panels of ladies alternating with boys beside a flower spray below the foliate rim, minor chips 9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
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This central scene was used within at least four different border designs between 1760 and 1790, but this border design appears to be the rarest.
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Offered on 6 December in London, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England