A CHANTILLY 'BLEU MOSAIQUE ET OR' PLATE

1753-1760, BLUE HUNTING HORN AND R MARK, GILER'S B, INCISED HUNTING HORN

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A CHANTILLY 'BLEU MOSAIQUE ET OR' PLATE
1753-1760, blue hunting horn and R mark, giler's B, incised hunting horn
The center painted with a boy seated at the base of a tree, holding a kite and hugging his dog, reserved on the bleu mosaïque ground within a circular cartouche of gilt grasses, the border further reserved with alternate landscapes with red-roofed houses and hunting vignettes, each reserved within a gilt quatrefoil cartouche on the same ground, the rim gilt with cross-hatching within a gilt line rim
9 5/8in. (24.4cm.)

Provenance

With Dragesco-Cramoisin, Paris, 1984

Lot Essay

The ground decoration found on the present plate is based on a Chinese textile. Several variant services on the distinct blue trellis ground were made, the variations occuring in the gilding pattern and the subjects of the painted reserves. The three best known variations are painted with flowers, painted with scenes based on Aesop's fables, and the present hunting service. A lobed oval stand from the same service as the present example from the collection of Forsythe Wickes is conserved at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. See Genevève Le Duc, Porcelain tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe Siècle, 1996, p. 243, color plate for this lozenge-shaped dish.

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