Unrecorded and Exceptional Chinese Export European Market Polychrome Enamel Mythological Subject Plate

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Unrecorded and Exceptional Chinese Export European Market Polychrome Enamel Mythological Subject Plate ca. 1740; depicting a naked boy standing beside the kneeling figure of Echo, wearing scant rose drapery and peering from behind green and yellow leafed trees at her beloved Narcissus seated on the opposite bank of a stream, wearing scant iron-red drapery and gazing into the water; in the foreground pink flowering plants and grey rocks, and in the distance rose hills beneath a pink and blue sky and decorated with gilt-starred lattice rim and central roundel with gilt foliate border; the scene likely based on the engraving by François Vivares (French, 1709-1780) after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682); diameter: 8 7/8 in.

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