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A SET OF SIXTEEN FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT Published:
‘LOVERS’ PLATES AFTER C. LA FOSSE Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, pp. 100-101, no. 69
Qianlong period, circa 1745 Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 156 (Addendum:
Each plate painted at the center with two partially naked draped Research Updates)
figures, one a semi-recumbent lady in pink robes leaning against a
seated male figure in a blue robe who places his arm around her whilst 出版：
they watch two birds nearby, all set in a landscape with trees and 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014
rockwork below a gilt spearhead band at the shallow well, the border 年，頁100-101，圖版編號69
with four puce-decorated Chinese riverscape cartouches reserved 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
on a wide grisaille and gilt cell band centered by gilt chrysanthemum 年，頁156 (後記：研究新論)
heads, with a thin band of gilt scrolls at the rim.
9in (23cm) diam (16). The scene represents Acis and Galatea, though it is perhaps also
an excuse to depict a partially clad amorous couple embracing. The
$10,000 - 15,000 image is derived from a print by Edmé Jeaurat (1688-1738) after a
painting by Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716) (fig.1) The original print
乾隆時期 約1745年 琺琅彩墨彩描金歐洲人物故事《愛侶》圖盤一組 included Polyphemus who is omitted in the view copied onto Chinese
十六件 porcelain. Another print version exists in a Western collection with the
image reversed and a Dutch ship visible in the distance.
The image was also used for a large tapestry now in the Rijksmuseum
and adds to a growing number of such designs that appeared on
export porcelains and tapestries.
References: Veiga 1989, p.170, a dinner plate; Scheurleer 1974,
no. 231, a plate; and Jörg 1989, cat. 85, a plate. For the alternative
version with the image reversed and with a ship included, see
Hervouêt & Bruneau, no. 13, p.103, and321, a plate and 13.104; the
Mottahedeh Collection example illustrated by Howard & Ayers 1978,
p.196; and by Mezin 2002, p.139.

(fig.1)

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