Dish
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1750
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (faience)
DimensionsOverall: 1 3/8 × 17 × 11 5/8 inches (3.49 × 43.18 × 29.53 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Charles T. and Marion Thompson Fund
Object number2024.3.1
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DescriptionShaped oval dish painted in shades of blue, ochre, and green, the center with a courtesan walking beside her page holding a parasol above her, birds in flight flanking it above, a parrot on a rocky outcropping and a couple to the right, a dwarf blowing a horn at the lower left, the vari-lobed border with terraces of flowering plants grounded at the ochre and blue line rim and extending into the cavetto.ProvenancePurchased from Galerie Verneuil-Bac (Jean-Gabriel Peyre and Jean-Claude Sieberth) Paris, 2002, by Sidney R. Knafel, New York;
His unrestricted bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, 2021;
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2 February 2024 [1].
[1] This dish was offered for sale by The Detroit Instute of Arts at Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Prints / English & Continental Decorative Arts, Doyle Auctions, New York, 25 January 2024, no. 672, but failed to sell.
Christopher
Pèrles. French Faïence: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection (Paris: Éditions Mare
et Martin, 2016): cat. 49, p. 122-123
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