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A THÉODORE DECK MAJOLICA RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRE

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A THÉODORE DECK MAJOLICA RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRE
Circa 1875

With two elephant's mask handles, the sides enamelled in a bright palette with a frieze of stylised berried foliage alternating with white flowerheads within roundels, between purple borders reserved at the rim with a band of flowerheads and leaves, the base with overlapping half-circles, the interior glazed in turquoise, on a waved everted foot (chips to rims and elephants' tusks, slight surface chips to glaze), impressed TH. DECK.
22½in. (57cm.) wide