Dish
ca. 1750-ca. 1760 (made)
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Two-handled shallow dish with shaped outline, tin-glazed earthenware, the border painted in colours with rococo scrollwork and shellwork with spiral wrythen vases, and with animals, birds and fruit, the centre painted with rustic lovers after a print by Boucher after a painting by Watteau
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours |
| Brief description | Two-handled shallow dish with shaped outline, tin-glazed earthenware, the centre painted with rustic lovers after a painting by Watteau, France, about 1750-1760 |
| Physical description | Two-handled shallow dish with shaped outline, tin-glazed earthenware, the border painted in colours with rococo scrollwork and shellwork with spiral wrythen vases, and with animals, birds and fruit, the centre painted with rustic lovers after a print by Boucher after a painting by Watteau |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (No mark) |
| Object history | Bought from the Aigoin Collection Acquisition type: Purchase |
| Production | Acquired as Rouen, period of Louis XV; labelled as Rouen c. 1750-60 in 1953. According to a note in the register the subject is adapted from 'Le Denicheur de Moineaux', engraved by Boucher after Watteau's painting in the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. |
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| Accession number | 447-1870 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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