Live Auction 2808European Furniture, Clocks, Sculpture and Works of Art
A pair of grisaille and gilt Chinese 'European subject' plates
Lot 352 THE PROPERTY OF A DECEASED EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A pair of grisaille and gilt Chinese 'European subject' plates

MID 18TH CENTURY

Closed16 December 2008

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EUR 3,750

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A pair of grisaille and gilt Chinese 'European subject' plates
Mid 18th Century
Depicting 'The Seamstress', a seated woman embroidering in a dark interior by a window with boats in the distance, the rim with a Louis XV-style du Paquier border between a spearhead-pattern band in gilt and iron-red, rim restoration
23.4 cm. diam. (2)

With John Sparks, London, 1990
With Spink & Sons Ltd, London.

Specialist note

See F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes au Décor Occidental, 1986, fig.6.47, p.131 for a very similar plate but with a different border to this lot, together with a saucer with this design, fig.6.48.