A SET OF SIXTEEN FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT 'LOVERS' PLATES AFTER C. LA FOSSE Qianlong period, circa 1745 Each plate painted at the center with two partially naked draped figures, one a semi-recumbent lady in pink robes leaning against a seated male figure in a blue robe who places his arm around her whilst they watch two birds nearby, all set in a landscape with trees and rockwork below a gilt spearhead band at the shallow well, the border with four puce-decorated Chinese riverscape cartouches reserved on a wide grisaille and gilt cell band centered by gilt chrysanthemum heads, with a thin band of gilt scrolls at the rim. 9in (23cm) diam (16). Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1745年 琺琅彩墨彩描金歐洲人物故事《愛侶》圖盤一組十六件 Published: Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, pp. 100-101, no. 69 Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 156 (Addendum: Research Updates) 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014年，頁100-101，圖版編號69 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015年，頁156 (後記：研究新論) The scene represents Acis and Galatea, though it is perhaps also an excuse to depict a partially clad amorous couple embracing. The image is derived from a print by Edmé Jeaurat (1688-1738) after a painting by Charles de la Fosse (1636-1716). [fig. 1] The original print included Polyphemus who is omitted in the view copied onto Chinese porcelain. Another print version exists in a Western collection with the image reversed and a Dutch ship visible in the distance. The image was also used for a large tapestry now in the Rijksmuseum and adds to a growing number of such designs that appeared on export porcelains and tapestries. References: Veiga 1989, p.170, a dinner plate; Scheurleer 1974, no. 231, a plate; and Jörg 1989, cat. 85, a plate. For the alternative version with the image reversed and with a ship included, see Hervouêt & Bruneau, no. 13, p. 103, and321, a plate and 13.104; the Mottahedeh Collection example illustrated by Howard & Ayers 1978, p. 196; and by Mezin 2002, p. 139.