Serving Dish
ca. 1765-ca. 1795 (made)
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Oval serving dish with waved edge, painted with masonic emblems in rococo cartouches reserved on a yellow ground
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours |
| Brief description | Oval serving dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted with masonic emblems, Veuve Perrin pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1765-1795 |
| Physical description | Oval serving dish with waved edge, painted with masonic emblems in rococo cartouches reserved on a yellow ground |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'VP' (Painted in monogram in red) |
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| Object history | Purchase. Formerly Fétis collection. |
| Production | Acquired as Marseilles, Veuve Perrin factory, c. 1780; redated c. 1760-70; for a similar piece dated c.1765-end of the 18th century, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 104. llustrated Musées de Marseille, La Faïence de Marseille au XVIIIe siècle: La manufacture de la Veuve Perrin, 1991, exhibition catalogue, no. 261. |
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| Accession number | 122-1887 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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