An extremely rare dutch-decorated saucer dish Circa 1750 Painted in iron-red, green, blue, yellow, pink and black enamels and gilt with a scene depicting the signing of the Treaty of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), a group of five plenipotentiaries and delegates from the courts of France, Austria and Holland seated around a rectangular table on a checkered tiled floor with carpet, the back of three chairs decorated with the emblems of the three countries, the fleur-de-lys , the Austrian double eagle and the Dutch lion, the documents revealing various inscriptions relating to the relevant dates: ' 1748, le 8 Octobre '; ' 30 April 1749 preliminaire van vrede ', the wall behind the arcade in the background decorated with a Baroque mirror above the gentlemen's tricorn hats suspending from pegs, to the right a double portrait below a shelf of leather-bound books and to the left heavy green curtains in front of a paned window, small rim frits 21.2 cm. (8 3/8 in.)
An extremely rare dutch-decorated saucer dish Circa 1750 Painted in iron-red, green, blue, yellow, pink and black enamels and gilt with a scene depicting the signing of the Treaty of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), a group of five plenipotentiaries and delegates from the courts of France, Austria and Holland seated around a rectangular table on a checkered tiled floor with carpet, the back of three chairs decorated with the emblems of the three countries, the fleur-de-lys , the Austrian double eagle and the Dutch lion, the documents revealing various inscriptions relating to the relevant dates: ' 1748, le 8 Octobre '; ' 30 April 1749 preliminaire van vrede ', the wall behind the arcade in the background decorated with a Baroque mirror above the gentlemen's tricorn hats suspending from pegs, to the right a double portrait below a shelf of leather-bound books and to the left heavy green curtains in front of a paned window, small rim frits 21.2 cm. (8 3/8 in.)
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