PERIOD: XVIIIeme
A GOTHA TREFOIL-SHAPED TETE-A-TETE TRAY CIRCA 1780, UNDERGLAZE BLUE R MARK, With a pierced scroll-moulded gilt handle and two circular wells, painted with a woman holding a birdcage and a child at her feet, in a wooded landscape vignette, the wells with bouquets, within a scroll-moulded gilt-edged rim (some rubbing to gilt rim) 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) wide Provenance C. Cuneo Collection, Turin (paper collection label attached to underside) Anon., sale Christie's, 24th February 1997, lot 442. Lot Notes For this form of t?te-?-t?te tray see Helmut Scherf, Th?ringer Porzellan (Leipzig, 1980), pp. 74 and
PRIX: $1200
