Plate
ca. 1755-ca. 1785 (made)
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Circular plate flat base and scalloped border with wavy edge, tin-glazed earthenware, the border painted in colours with rocaille ornament, the centre painted in green with lovers with musical instruments in a rustic landscape
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours |
| Brief description | Circular plate, tin-glazed earthenware, painted with lovers in a rustic landscape, probably made at Fauchier pottery factory, France, about 1755-1785 |
| Physical description | Circular plate flat base and scalloped border with wavy edge, tin-glazed earthenware, the border painted in colours with rocaille ornament, the centre painted in green with lovers with musical instruments in a rustic landscape |
| Gallery label | Gallery 128 Decant 2003
The main subject was possibly by a painter who worked also at the Tour d'Aigues factory in Provence.(07/06/2004) |
| Object history | Bought from the Aigoin Collection Acquisition type: Purchase |
| Production | Acquired as Marseilles. Notes in register: 'Stated by M. Charles Damiron to be of the same origin as a plate in the Musée Ceramique, Sévres, marked 'fait à La Tour-d'Aigues'' (illustrated Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 136, where dated to the second half of the 18th century, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, exhibition catalogue, 'Faïences Françaies, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles', 1980, cat. 58, where given the same date). 'In the opinion of M. Gilbert Lévy, dealer of Paris (1937), this is of Marsailles faience madeat the Fauchier factory' For a plate with a similar polychrome border and attributed to the Fauchier factory see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 85. |
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| Accession number | 459-1870 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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