FOUR FRENCH MAJOLICA OYSTER PLATES AND FIVE DESSERT PLATES

VARIOUS MARKS, CIRCA 1880

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FOUR FRENCH MAJOLICA OYSTER PLATES AND FIVE DESSERT PLATES
VARIOUS MARKS, CIRCA 1880
Including: four Orchies oyster plates, each moulded with scattered flowers on a pebbled ground about a central well, blue painted letters to the underside; four Sarreguemines dessert plates moulded with birds on branches, one of these with an impressed uppercase mark; and another with a branch of apples, with a printed mark
10 in. (25.5 cm.), the oyster plates (9)

Lot Essay

See Dawes, p. 147, fig. 252, for two similar dessert plates moulded with strawberries or pears from a service composed of individual fruit patterns. Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Howard Silby. See also Faveton, p. 36 for a similar plate with birds.

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