Page 245 - Bonhams Catalog Cohen and Cohen Jan 24, 2023 New York

119 ¤ (1661-1721) after an original painting by Nicola Fouché (1653-1733).
A SUPERB PAIR OF GRISAILLE, GILT AND SEPIA-DECORATED The brilliantly painted ink color enamels are frequently termed grisaille,
‘DIANA BATHING’ PLATES encre de chine or Jesuit ware. The use of black enamel was in
Qianlong period, circa 1745 imitation of the drawings and prints that were not colored before being
Each brilliantly painted in ink color enamels with a central scene of the
Goddess Diana bathing in a bucolic landscape setting with steepled used as sources by Chinese decorators. The attempt to achieve this
technology was recorded by d’Entrecolles in 1722. For a discussion of
town visible in the distance, she sits with one leg draped in the lake
before her and attended by winged putti, a band of spearheads at ink color enamels see, Sargent, 2012, pp. 333-4.
the well and with four mythological references of a hound, peacock, References: Mezin, 2002, p. 92, no. 73, a plate with this scene but a
birds with a quiver and a hawk with a spear at the cardinal points and
conjoined by rocaille C-scrolls and festoons of flowers, the reverses different border; Hervouet & Bruneau, 1986, no. 13.16, a plate with the
same border.
plain.
9in (23cm) diam (2).
$2,500 - 3,500
乾隆時期 約1745年 墨彩描金描紅《月神出浴》圖盤一對

Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 148-149, no. 61
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年，頁
148-149，圖版編號61
The central scene is a frequent subject of 16th-18th century artists
allowing them to depict the naked body safely cloaked in mythology. (fig.1)
(fig.1). This pattern was after a print by Claude Augustin Duflos
(1700-1786) copying and earlier print by Benôit Audran the Elder

COHEN & COHEN | 243