FIVE PARIS (DIHL AND GUERHARD) PLATES painted by Drölling with peasants at various pursuits, a girl and a boy at a wash-tub, a flower-girl before a fence, a milkmaid with a measure, a boy wandering in a landscape and a farmyard scene with hens, a donkey and a thatched cottage within richly gilt borders with anthemion, foliage scrolls and garlands, one with a gilt and black zig-zag ornament (one with a star crack and a slight rim chip at 4 o'clock), two signed Drölling., two signed Drölling. p. and one signed Drölling pin, various script marks for Dihl and Dihl and Guerhard, circa 1810

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FIVE PARIS (DIHL AND GUERHARD) PLATES painted by Drölling with peasants at various pursuits, a girl and a boy at a wash-tub, a flower-girl before a fence, a milkmaid with a measure, a boy wandering in a landscape and a farmyard scene with hens, a donkey and a thatched cottage within richly gilt borders with anthemion, foliage scrolls and garlands, one with a gilt and black zig-zag ornament (one with a star crack and a slight rim chip at 4 o'clock), two signed Drölling., two signed Drölling. p. and one signed Drölling pin, various script marks for Dihl and Dihl and Guerhard, circa 1810
24.5cm. diam. (5)

Lot Essay

Martin Drölling (1752-1829) painter of genre and landscapes
Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Paris Porcelain 1770-1850, no. 95 for a portrait of Bonaparte painted by Drölling and p. 134 for discussion in the Le Pausanias français, concerning the raising of the status of porcelain at M. Dihl's factory by the employment of the best artists. Drölling often copies from the od masters as well as contemporaries

Cf. the service from Pitchford Hall, sold on the premises, Christie's, 29 September 1992, lot 876

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