Porcelain grisaille plate with European decoration. - Lot 30

Porcelain grisaille plate with European decoration. China. Qianlong period (1736-1795), circa 1740 Decorated in grisaille and gilding, the wing with garlands, spearheads on the marli, and a central scene with an old man and a young boy observing two women accompanied by a maid holding a parasol. The decoration is based on a painting by Nicolas Lancret (1690- 1743), Les oies de Frère Philippe, engraved by Nicolas IV de Larmessin (1684-1755). An identical plate, preserved in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, is illustrated by Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr. in Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, 2003, p. 184, no. 180.