Dessert Plate
ca. 1770-1780 (made)
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Plain circular plate without moulded rim, the centre painted in enamels with an old peasant woman seated drinking at a rustic table, in the rim a tub, a bench, and a jar and bottle leaning against a plank, the rim picked out in pink (now chipped)
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Tin-glazed earthenware dessert plate, painted in enamels, made by Sceaux pottery factory, France, about 1770-1780 |
| Physical description | Plain circular plate without moulded rim, the centre painted in enamels with an old peasant woman seated drinking at a rustic table, in the rim a tub, a bench, and a jar and bottle leaning against a plank, the rim picked out in pink (now chipped) |
| Object history | From the same service as C.205-1939. Bought from the Pottier Collection. Paper label inscribed in ink: 'POTTIER [illegible?] de la Vigne 1936 Vandermeersch' |
| Production | Acquired as Sceaux, c. 1780. For a similar Sceaux plate dated c. 1770-80 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 160 bottom left. |
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| Accession number | C.206-1939 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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