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Plate

ca. 1755-ca. 1785 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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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Object type
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
(07/06/2004)
Gallery 128 Decant 2003

The main subject was possibly by a painter who worked also at the Tour d'Aigues factory in Provence.
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.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
459-1870

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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