A CHINESE EN GRISAILLE THE SEAMSTRESS PLATE - Porcelain - China - Qianlong (1736-1795)
A CHINESE EN GRISAILLE THE SEAMSTRESS PLATE Qianlong (1735-1795) , circa 1750 Decorated en grisaille, and gilt with ‘The Seamstress’ or ‘The Embroiderer’, seated with her back to a window with ships beside a tall building on a cliff, her robes heightened in gilt, encircled by a gilt spearhead border at the rim. A plate is illustrated by William R. Sargent in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics, from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, no. 181, p. 339, where the author notes the design is one of several variations on the theme. CONDITION : 2 chips on the rim, and some very small line in the glaze hard to take in pictures
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A CHINESE EN GRISAILLE THE SEAMSTRESS PLATE Qianlong (1735-1795) , circa 1750 Decorated en grisaille, and gilt with ‘The Seamstress’ or ‘The Embroiderer’, seated with her back to a window with ships beside a tall building on a cliff, her robes heightened in gilt, encircled by a gilt spearhead border at the rim. A plate is illustrated by William R. Sargent in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics, from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, no. 181, p. 339, where the author notes the design is one of several variations on the theme. CONDITION : 2 chips on the rim, and some very small line in the glaze hard to take in pictures
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