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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ PLATE AFTER All four designs are known on Chinese plates and tea wares. There
ALBANI’S ‘EARTH’ appear to have been two special commissions for these plates, one
Qianlong period, circa 1750 with the blue border as in this lot, and the other with a gilt foliage
Amusingly enameled in bright colors with a European mythological rim (see lot 141). There are also differences in the placement of the
scene derived from Albani’s ‘Earth’, the center with three female and composition within the circle, suggesting a different workshop or set of
one male figure, variously robed and unrobed, riding a chariot pulled painters for each order.
by lions with six putti dispersed before them, a large leafy tree to one
side and a river landscape in the background, the rim with a dense Sets of these four oil paintings were engraved by many different artists.
blue-scroll border, the reverse plain. The series was issued by Jacques Chereau, Nicolas de Larmessin
9in (22.7cm) diam IV, or Nicoloas Dauphin de Beauvais, any of their versions could have
been taken to China, but Chereau seems the most likely source. Other
$5,000 - 7,000 prints by Chereau and Larmessin are known on export porcelain.

乾隆時期 約1750年 粉彩繪《歐洲人物故事》阿爾巴尼之《大地》圖 See lot 141, for this pattern with a gilt scrolling foliage border, and for
盤 background information and references.
Published: Two very similar plates with blue borders sold at Christie’s New York,
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, pp. 120-121, no. 53 20 January 2016, lot 70, from the Miller Collection; and 17 January
2018, lot 79, from the sale of export art from the Marchant Firm,
出版： established in 1925.
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2016年，
頁120-121，圖版編號53 Another pair can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.
The scene depicts “Earth” from a print source after the oil painting by
Francisco Albani (1578–16 60), one of a series depicting the ‘Four References: Mezin, 2002, nos. 67-70, pp. 86-9, four plates with each
Elements’, painted between 1625-1628 for the Cardinal of Savoy, later of the scenes and an illustration of a set of engravings by Nicolas IV de
King of Sardinia, and which are now in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin Larmessin; Williamson, 1970, plate XXXIX, four plates including ‘Earth’
(fig.1). Cybele is seated in her chariot surrounded by personifications with gilt rim border and plate XXIV, a teapot with this design; Howard,
of the three seasons: Flora as Spring, Ceres as Summer, and Bacchus 1994, p. 111; Beurdeley, 1962, p. 179; Hervouët & Bruneau, 1986, pp.
as Autumn. Harsh “Winter” was absent as Albani intended to flatter the 318-9; Jörg, 1989, pp. 174-5; Le Corbeiller, 1974, pp. 64-5; Sargent,
Cardinal’s sunny disposition. 2012, p. 29; Palmer, 1976, p. 71; Howard & Ayers, 1978, pp. 323;
Gordon, 1984, no. 46; Puglisi, 1999, p. 144, cat. 60, for the series
and note of two further engravers; Scheurleer, 1974, no. 232; Pinto de
Matos, 2011, Vol. 2, no. 320, p. 228, for a plate and illustration of the
de Beauvais print version; Cunha Alves, 2016, no. 76, p. 134, a tea
bowl and saucer with this design.

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