Chantilly oval dish, flower panels on blue and gold ground
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A Chantilly lobed oval dish, circa 1760
Decorated with a blue seeded trellis ground heightened in gilding, reserved with an oval panel in the centre painted with flowers within a gilt foliate border, and six smaller quatrelobe panels with flower sprigs and gilt scroll borders around the rim, gilt dentil border to edge of rim, 29.8cm across, horn mark and R in blue, incised B
Estimate:
£800 - 1,200
€950 - 1,400
US$ 1,200 - 1,800

Footnotes

  • An oval dish decorated with the same pattern in the British Museum, inv. 1994.4-6.1, is illustrated by Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly (1996), p.239. A further example is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. BK-1966-108. A plate of the same pattern is illustrated by Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain (1994), p.42, item 45, col. pl.5.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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