Possibly Northern Netherlands, the straight-sided bowl with rounded base, decorated on one side with a nude female figure holding aloft a covered goblet in her right hand, her left arm resting on a large ewer, reclining on the lap of a man, a flying Cupid at one side firing an arrow at the couple, all within a strapwork cartouche, the reverse with two skirmishing cavalrymen, in the manner of the engraved work of Antonio Tempesta a small polished lens above and within a similar frame, flanked by pendant fruit and flowers with polished centres, set on a hollow inverted baluster between mereses, over a wide conical foot with folded rim, inscribed Vive les Deux, the domed cover with the monogram CAB below a crown, the reverse with a crowned armorial, each between tied leaf fronds and joined by fruit swags, below a knopped finial, 25cm high (2)
Possibly Northern Netherlands, the straight-sided bowl with rounded base, decorated on one side with a nude female figure holding aloft a covered goblet in her right hand, her left arm resting on a large ewer, reclining on the lap of a man, a flying Cupid at one side firing an arrow at the couple, all within a strapwork cartouche, the reverse with two skirmishing cavalrymen, in the manner of the engraved work of Antonio Tempesta a small polished lens above and within a similar frame, flanked by pendant fruit and flowers with polished centres, set on a hollow inverted baluster between mereses, over a wide conical foot with folded rim, inscribed Vive les Deux, the domed cover with the monogram CAB below a crown, the reverse with a crowned armorial, each between tied leaf fronds and joined by fruit swags, below a knopped finial, 25cm high (2)
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.jpg "Source: Christie's")
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