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A GRISAILLE ‘DRUNKEN REVELERS’ SOUP PLATE Published:
Qianlong period, circa 1750 Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, p. 114-115, no. 50
Decorated in grisaille, iron-red and gilt with a semi-erotic European
scene of three male drunken revelers, one kneeling on a chair and 出版：
eyeing through a monocle the proceedings unfolding before him, the 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2016年，
other two seated in front of him clutching tankards whilst one smokes 頁115-115，圖版編號50
a long pipe, and the object of their attentive gaze is the provocative
lifting of a skirt by an elegantly dressed lady seated before them, all set Only a few examples of this subject are recorded, and all seem to be
on a balustraded garden terrace with a dog in the foreground, the flesh soup plates, so it was possible that only a single set of such plates
tones of the figures highlighted in iron-red, the border rim elegantly was ordered as a dessert service.
painted in penciled iron-red and gilt with swags of rococo cartouches
that hang to the edge of the well, the reverse plain. The print source for this subject is as yet undiscovered but seems to
9in (23cm) diam derive from works in the style of Adrian van Ostade and others. The
scene is quite explicit for this type - which are usually a little more
$1,500 - 2,000 discreet. The woman is raising her skirt to reveal a shapely ankle to
a louche young man draped over his chair and smoking a long pipe,
乾隆時期 約1750年 墨彩描金《酒醉尋歡》湯盤 with two enthusiastic onlookers and a dog in the foreground. It may
possibly be from series illustrating the biblical story of the Prodigal Son.
References: Shimizu & Chabanne, 2003, p. 211, no. 162, an identical
soup plate; Hervouët & Bruneau, 1986, no. 4.55, another.

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