A PAIR OF MARSEILLE (VEUVE PERRIN) SHAPED OVAL DISHES painted in a bright palette, the centres with fish, mussels, seaweed and a harpoon entwined with puce and green ribbon, the border with groups of shells, coral and scattered insects within a puce feuilles-de-choux rim (both with chips to rim and glaze flaking), sepia VP marks, circa 1770

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A PAIR OF MARSEILLE (VEUVE PERRIN) SHAPED OVAL DISHES painted in a bright palette, the centres with fish, mussels, seaweed and a harpoon entwined with puce and green ribbon, the border with groups of shells, coral and scattered insects within a puce feuilles-de-choux rim (both with chips to rim and glaze flaking), sepia VP marks, circa 1770
38.5cm. wide (2)

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This type of decoration was known as aux poissons à la bouillabaise, see Henry-Pierre Fourest, Faiences françaises, no. 102-3 for a tureen and an oval dish

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