A CHINESE EXPORT PLATE circa 1750-55

painted with a sportsman and his sweetheart seated on the ground and toasting each other with wine glasses, two dogs seated at their feet before distant Italianate buildings, the cavetto with a grisaille and gilt cup-and-ball border, and the rim with a gilt shell-and-foliate-scroll border. 

Anonymous Collection, sold, Christie's East, New York, June 4, 1985, lot 488

Stacking wear in the gold and grisaille roundel, firing pit at 5:00.
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Identical plates are illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, p. 70, no. 3.16; and Veiga, p. 157, pl. 128, who also illustrates a grisaille version differently bordered, p. 156, pl. 127.