© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Source Description:

This engraving of 1741 is by Jacques Philippe le Bas and is after a painting by Jean Baptiste Chardin entitled  Le Négligé ou Toilette du Matin. It is the source for the main print on the Bow plate.

Description:

This octagonal Bow porcelain plate is printed in purple enamel with Le Négligé after Jean Baptiste Chardin: a lady is shown adjusting a young girl's headdress in a bedroom with a paneled background.  There are five subsidiary prints around the rim of the plate.  Two of these are split prints taken from The Toys. One shows a lady holding a flower spray in her left hand.  She is seated beside a table on which she rests a toy wooden horse.  The other print shows two children.  The Toys is taken from a Drawing Book printed for Robert Sayer. It was later published in The Ladies Amusement.  The other small prints are of flower sprays.