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A RARE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT ‘CARTOUCHES’ SOUP PLATE Nilson, sometimes referred to as the ‘German Watteau’, was a
Qianlong period, circa 1770 significant figure in the art of the rococo and a prolific artist and
Painted in famille rose enamels with a central scene that extends to publisher of series of finely drawn prints. In 1761 he was appointed
the well, depicting a large stone ‘rocaille’ cartouche atop which sits court painter to Prince Carl Theodor von der Pfalz und Bayern, and
a crying putto resting his left elbow on a severed head, a maple tree from 1769-88 was Director of the Augsburg Academy of Art.
and other bushes form a backdrop and before this scene on a fenced
terrace an elegant gentleman doffs his tricorn hat and bows to a References: Hervouët & Bruneau, 1986, p. 155, no. 7.38, a soup plate
sumptuously and colorfully dressed lady with large ruff sleeves, holding with this design and p. 144, no. 7.9, the drinkers plate.
a kerchief and walking away from the bowed figure, the everted rim
painted with scattered loose flower sprays, the reverse plain.
9in (23 cm) diam
$800 - 1,200

乾隆時期 約1770年 粉彩歐式《捲框》湯盤
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, pp. 100-101, no. 63

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
年，頁100-101，圖版編號63
The image is from a series of four prints Cartouches Modernes avec
des Differentes Figures by Augsburg printmaker Johann Esaias Nilson (fig.1)
(1721-88) (fig.1). Another from the ‘Cartouches’ series is also known
on export porcelain and one other from a different series ‘Times of the
Day’. They all share similar border designs.

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