CIRCA 1720

Details

A Marseille (St. Jean du Desert) large blue and white charger
Circa 1720
The centre painted with a bull hunt, with two finely dressed soldiers on horseback to the left of a tree on a hill in a wooded landscape, each stabbing a bull in its shoulders with their spears, two hounds with snarling jaws also attacking the bull, one with the bull's left ear in its jaws, within a double concentric circle and stylised foliage cartouche, the broad flat border with a band of trailing flowering branches divided by triangular groupings of stylised leaves and centred at the base with a crowned monogram, between double concentric circles and within a moulded rim, the top of the border with pierced apertures for hanging (some chipping and flaking to rim, firing fault from rim at 10 o'clock to centre, some other slight runs to glaze, chip to footrim)
20 5/8 in. (52.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Marius Bernard Collection, Marseille, according to an old collection label attached to the reverse.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The subject is taken from the engraving of a bull hunt by Antonio Tempesta. For a similar charger also decorated with a scene after Tempesta, see the charger formerly in the Gilbert Lévy Collection sold in these Rooms on 9th July 2001, lot 126.

Left, detail of paper collection label on reverse

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