A Chinese Export Plate Circa 1745-1755

painted with a gentleman playing a guitar and a man with his right arm around the shoulders of a woman playing a triangle.

There is some very minor crazing to the glaze around the rim edge. Slight stacking wear to the enamels on the tree and the foreground (visible in the catalogue photo) and some fine black speckling to the glaze overall on the front rim and the back of the plate. This is however very fine and not particularly noticeable on the front.
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An almost identical plate from the Khalil Rizk Collection sold at Sotheby's, New York, April 25, 2008, lot 161.