A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790
A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790
Each enameled in blue, grisaille, sepia, iron-red, and gilt with a central roundel depicting the profile portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet tied with a ribbon, conjoined to the profile of an elderly bespectacled matron, the border with a blue enamel leaf band
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
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With Cohen & Cohen, London.
The Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection
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A PAIR OF TROMPE L'OEIL 'REVERSIBLE PORTRAIT' PLATES
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1790
Each enameled in blue, grisaille, sepia, iron-red, and gilt with a central roundel depicting the profile portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet tied with a ribbon, conjoined to the profile of an elderly bespectacled matron, the border with a blue enamel leaf band
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
Provenance
With Cohen & Cohen, London.
The Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection
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