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THREE CHINESE EXPORT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATES, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 粉彩西洋人物圖盤三件
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January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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THREE CHINESE EXPORT EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATES
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 粉彩西洋人物圖盤三件
comprising a pair of plates painted in the center with the scene 'The Peasant Boy Looking for his Lost Calf', with the boy approaching a reclining European lady under a tree in landscape; and a plate painted with a European couple, also in landscape, with a third figure playing the mandolin behind a barrel
diameter of largest 9⅛ in.; 23.3 cm
Henry Moog, Atlanta
The pair of plates depicting the lady and the boy in landscape is painted after a print by Larmessin, which in turn was after a drawing by Vleugels, illustrating a fable of La Fontaine. An identical example, together with the original drawing, is illustrated in Michel Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, fig. 41 and 42.
A similar example to the third plate, painted with a scene of a mandolin player, is illustrated in François and Nicole Hervouët and Yves Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, cat. no. 8.15.