A TAXILE DOAT PATE-SUR-PATE GREY-GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

MONOGRAMMED DT AND INCISED AND DATED TAXILE DOAT 1884

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A TAXILE DOAT PATE-SUR-PATE GREY-GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
MONOGRAMMED DT AND INCISED AND DATED TAXILE DOAT 1884
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a Bacchic putto wrapped in a mouse pelt seated atop a tall torchere and drinking from a flask above a placard label in Latin SITIS, the base with a thyrsus and chalice
9¾ x 6 in. (25 x 15 cm.), within a gilt and ebonized wood frame

Lot Essay

Taxile Doat arrived at University City, St. Louis, Missouri in 1909 to help form an Art Academy. With him he brought a collection of works from his atelier to form the nucleus of the Academy Museum, many of these works were later purchased by the St. Louis Art Museum.

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