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THREE EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATES A GROUP OF FOUR PLATES
MID-18TH CENTURY LATE 18TH CENTURY
The frst with a bucolic rural scene showing a couple listening to a A small plate with a polychrome hunting dog, a Chelsea porcelain
lute player, the second with bare-breasted European lady stroking style botanical plate, a plate with the arms of Danish East India
the head of a monkey seated beside her, and the third showing Company director Peter van Hemert on the rim and a pink cameo of
Neptune riding a dolphin towards a Swedish ship Minerva in the center, and a ‘pseudo tobacco leaf’ side plate
8æ in. (22.7 cm.) diameter (the marine plate) (3) 9º in. (22.9 cm.) diameter (the botanical plate) (4)
$3,000-5,000 $4,000-6,000
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