Dessert Plate

ca. 1770-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plain circular plate without moulded rim, the centre painted in enamels with a peasant boy seated on an upturned tub in front of a rustic table, carousing, in the rim a tub, a bottle and a plank, the rim picked out in pink (now chipped)

Object details

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Object type
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 a peasant boy seated on an upturned tub in front of a rustic table, carousing, in the rim a tub, a bottle and a plank, the rim picked out in pink (now chipped)
Object history
From the same service as C.206-1939, which was bought from the Pottier Collection.
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.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.205-1939

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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