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Dessert Plate

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular plate with lobed and scalloped border, the centre painted in coloured enamels with a Chinese man alongside a gigantic flowering branch, the border painted with insects and the edge picked out in brown

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
Brief description
Earthenware dessert plate, Chinese figure next to gigantic flowering branch, by Sceaux pottery factory, France, ca. 1750
Physical description
Circular plate with lobed and scalloped border, the centre painted in coloured enamels with a Chinese man alongside a gigantic flowering branch, the border painted with insects and the edge picked out in brown
Marks and inscriptions
'-C-' over '-S-' (Mark for Chapelle Sceaux, painted in brown enamel)
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
Acquired as Marseilles; then attributed to the factory of Honoré Savy (Marseilles); reattributed to Sceaux; illustrated Arthur Lane, French Faïence, 1948, pl. 91A as Sceaux c. 1750-60; for an almost indentical plate with this mark dated c. 1750 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 149 right.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.585-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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