Plate
ca. 1750-1780 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Circular plate with scalloped border, painted in colours with rocaille ornament, the centre painted in colours with a soldier with a drum
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours |
| Brief description | Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in colours, made by Fauchier pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1750-1780 |
| Physical description | Circular plate with scalloped border, painted in colours with rocaille ornament, the centre painted in colours with a soldier with a drum |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis |
| Object history | Acquisition type: Bequest |
| Production | Acquired as Marseilles, Fauchier factory, about 1750. For another with a similar border, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 85, bottom right, dated to second half of the 18th c. |
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| Accession number | C.182-1951 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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