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THE MILLER COLLECTION
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TWO GRISAILLE EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATES THREE GRISAILLE EUROPEAN SUBJECT PLATES
18TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY
The frst depicting Depart des Pelerins pour l’Ile de Cythere within gilt A ‘Danby gate’ plate showing the main gate of the Oxford Physick
scrollwork, the second a foxhunting scene and Jacob Bobart, frst keeper of the Garden, a Neptune plate, the
god riding two dolphins and accompanied by tritons and nymphs,
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter (the gilded plate) (2) and a ‘Fisherman’ plate after Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651)
$6,000-9,000 9 in. (22.8cm.) diameter (Oxford plate) (3)
PROVENANCE: $4,000-6,000
With Elinor Gordon (‘Ile de Cythere’). PROVENANCE:
Lucile and Robert H. Gries Collection; Christie’s, New York,
January 2000, lot 187. Northeast Auctions, New Hampshire, March 2001, lot 1156
The J. Louis Binder Collection; Christie’s, London, 17 June 2003, lot (Neptune).
53 (hunting). Christie’s, New York, January 2001, lot 110 (‘Danby Gate’).
Christie’s, London, November 1994, lot 221 (‘Fisherman’).
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