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15. Famille rose saucer, painted with the scene Fêtes Champêtres, ‘The Card Players’, with five men around a wooden table
drinking and playing cards, one of them with his arm around a servant girl holding a pitcher, all in a outdoor scene with
trees, the foreground with chickens and chicks.
4 ¾ inches, 12.1 cm diameter.
Early Qianlong, circa 1740.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• Sold by Philip Suval Inc., New York.
• Published by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 4.58, p.
99, where the author also illustrates a plate of this pattern, no. 4.57, p. 99; another plate is illustrated by J. A. Lloyd
Hyde in Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese Export Porcelain, Porcelaine de la Cie des Indes, no. 58, plate XVI, p.90/1; a pair
of plates are illustrated by William Motley in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition catalogue Bedtime Stories, 2004,
no. 13, p. 25.
• A grisaille plate of this pattern is illustrated by David S. Howard & John Ayers in China for the West, Volume two,
no. 366, pp. 372/3, where the author notes two versions in polychrome. A puce-enamel version is also known.
• The scene is taken from a painting and engraving after David Teniers (1610-1690), an original oil painting of similar
subject by David Teniers is on show at the National Trust property, Polesden Lacey in Dorset.
• It is possible that only one or two tea sets of this pattern were made.

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