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FRAMED PAINTED PORCELAIN PLAQUE, 'THE COTTAGE DOOR', AFTER Thomas Gainsborough

Sold for £200 at Lyon & Turnbull on Nov 12, 2025.

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FRAMED PAINTED PORCELAIN PLAQUE, 'THE COTTAGE DOOR', AFTER THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 19TH CENTURY depicting a family group of a mother with six children standing at the door of a thatched cottage, alongside a stream, in a woodland setting, within a giltwood and gesso frame, unsigned, unmarked the plaque 24.5cm high, 20.1cm wide, 39.5cm high, 34cm wide including the frame Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) painted ’The Cottage Door' circa 1780 and in the same year it was exhibited at The Royal Academy in London. The cottage door subject was a theme that he explored during the latter part of his of his life in several other paintings including ‘The Woodcutters Return’ (1772-1774), 'Hilly Landscape with Peasant Family at a Cottage Door, Children Playing and Woodcutter Returning' (1778) and ‘Peasant Smoking at Cottage Door’ (1788).

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