Extremely rare plate with erotic decoration, chinav18th century c.1740

CHINESE ORDER for the WEST
Very rare porcelain plate with erotic subject decorated in famille rose enamels with a European woman with unveiled breasts, caressing the head of a monkey sitting next to her and offering her a fruit with her right hand, on a hilly landscape background with castle.
18th century circa 1740
Diameter 23 cm.
Catalogued as extremely rare by HERVOUET and listed in his book ‘La porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à décor occidental’ éditions Flammarion 1986 page 137.
According to the imagination of the monkey in the Age of Enlightenment, it would be attracted by women, illustrating through this decoration the eroticism of this iconography.