Dessert Plate
ca. 1750 (made)
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Circular plate with lobed and scalloped border, the centre painted in coloured enamels with a Chinese man alongside a gigantic flowering branch, the border painted with insects and the edge picked out in brown
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Earthenware dessert plate, Chinese figure next to gigantic flowering branch, by Sceaux pottery factory, France, ca. 1750 |
| Physical description | Circular plate with lobed and scalloped border, the centre painted in coloured enamels with a Chinese man alongside a gigantic flowering branch, the border painted with insects and the edge picked out in brown |
| Marks and inscriptions | '-C-' over '-S-' (Mark for Chapelle Sceaux, painted in brown enamel) |
| Credit line | Given by J. H. Fitzhenry |
| Production | Acquired as Marseilles; then attributed to the factory of Honoré Savy (Marseilles); reattributed to Sceaux; illustrated Arthur Lane, French Faïence, 1948, pl. 91A as Sceaux c. 1750-60; for an almost indentical plate with this mark dated c. 1750 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 149 right. |
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| Accession number | C.585-1909 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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