This dish shows a European woman seated at a dressing table. The image is based on a 1694 engraving by the French artist Antoine Trouvain (1652-1708), showing Marie Anne Stuart, Princess of Orange and later Queen Mary II of England.

 

Exhibited: ‘Collectors, Curators and Connoisseurs’, Oriental Ceramic Society, 2021, no. 105

Literature: Sarah Wong and Stacey Pierson (eds.), Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: a century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021 (London, 2021), p. 266

Provenance: Duke’s, Dorchester, 22 May 2014, lot. 77; accepted in lieu of Inheritance tax by HM Government from the estate of Anthony du Boulay in 2024 and allocated to the Winchester College Treasury Museum.

Location: Not on display