Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"

Decoration after Nicolas Lancret French

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This plate depicts a tale from a famous collection of stories by a seventeenth-century French author, Jean de La Fontaine. The story concerns a young man encountering women for the first time, as seen here, and it served as the subject of a painting by Nicolas Lancret, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see 2004.86). The plate faithfully reproduces Lancret’s composition, and it reflects the adoption of European images by Chinese potters in order to appeal to foreign markets.

Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe", Decoration after Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690–1743 Paris), Porcelain, Chinese, made for export

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