Description:
Chinese export porcelain plate decorated with a scene of a dishelved woman on the ground with a man standing over her holding her left shoulder with this right han while a woman looks on from a window in a house on the right; there is a town with two tall towers in the background and a gilt scroll border around the rim. According to Hervouet and Bruneau, the scene was copied from an engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin (1684 - 1755), a French artist, after a painting by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), a French genre painter, draughtsman and collector whose depictions of fêtes galantes, or scenes of courtly amusements taking place in Arcadian settings, reflected the society of his time. "La Servante justifiee" (The justified servent) is from a fable by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) inspired by one of the Fables of the Queen of Navarre: "...The unfortunate thing was that all these pretty goings on / Were discovered by the people from a house nearby / Our friends had not paid attention to this business / A neighbor noticed the mystery..."
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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