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Thos tray is decorated with fanciful scenes of China, a dominant theme in French 18th-century art that reflects the fascination, fear, and awe of that country at the time. The scene was painted by Michel-Louis Chauveaux (active 1773–82). Jean Chauvaux the Younger decorated this white ground, hard-paste porcelain tray with a fanciful pseudo-Chinese scene, in which a woman holding an apple with one hand gestures with the other toward a prostrate youth at her side. Chauvaux might have drawn his inspiration for the scene from the work of François Boucher.
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