CIRCA 1867, BLUE IMPRESSED TH.DECK/1867. MARK TO REVERSE, BLACK SCRIPT SIGNATURE TO FRONT

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A THEODORE DECK FAIENCE CHARGER
CIRCA 1867, BLUE IMPRESSED TH.DECK/1867. MARK TO REVERSE, BLACK SCRIPT SIGNATURE TO FRONT
Painted by Marie-Caroline-Eléonore Escallier-Légérot, signed, in Japanese style with two exotic birds perched on flowering branches above magnolia and cherry branches
24 in. (61 cm.) diameter

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Museum of Art, 'The Second Empire, 1852-1870: Art in France under Napoleon III', 1 October-26 November 1978; this exhibition later travelled to Detroit, Institute of Arts, 15 January-18 March 1979; and Paris, Grand Palais, 24 April-2 July 1979.

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Lot Essay

A dish painted with a very similar bird subject, also signed by E. Escallier and dated 1867, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, museum no. 703-1869. Escallier, a French painter and ceramicist mainly specialised in flowers, fruit and birds. She studied in Dijon with the painter and ceramicist Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856) and made her debut at the Salon in 1857.

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