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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘AUTUMN’ PLATE DEPICTING TROUBADORS For other plates of this design, see Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!,
Qianlong period, circa 1750 Antwerp, 2016, pp. 126-127, no. 56; and Cohen & Cohen, The
Painted to the center of the plate with a large roundel with three Golden Gate Collection, Antwerp, 2018, p. 80, no. 60.
‘troubadors’, with one, a dandified male wearing flowing locks, tricorn
hat, billowing robes, ribboned stockings and smart shoes, seated on References: Hervouet & Bruneau, 1986, p. 188, no. 8.15, a plate;
rockwork and strumming at his lyre alongside barrels and two standing Howard, 1994, p. 88, no. 75, another plate; and Sargent, 2014, p.
figures, one female, playing a triangle, the other male, with castenets, 226, no. 82 for three examples in the Conde Collection.
set in a simple landscape below spearheads at the well and brightly
enameled rocaille border at the rim, the reverse plain.
9in (22.8cm) diam
$1,000 - 1,500
乾隆時期 約1750年 粉彩《秋景》吟唱詩人盤

The print source for this design was identified by William Motley in
2019. The image is from an engraving of Autumn from The Seasons
by Johann Georg Hertel of circa 1750, based on four gouaches by
Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-1788) (fig.1). Two others from the series,
Spring and Summer are also found on Chinese export items. The
unusual rococo border decoration on the plates is also found framing
the prints.
The design however is clearly based on the fashion in the eighteenth
century for a genre of painting, fetes galantes, popularized by artists
like Watteau and Lancret, in which many figures populate an idyllic (fig.1)
pastoral landscape and enjoying music, reading or picnics.

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