A THEODORE DECK FAIENCE TILE

DATED 1870, THE FRONT SIGNED J(ULES-ANTOINE) LEGRAIN, BLUE PAINTED UPPERCASE TH.DECK. 1870 MARK ON A GLAZED RECTANGULAR, THE REMAINDER OF THE BACK UNGLAZED

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A THEODORE DECK FAIENCE TILE
Dated 1870, the front signed J(ules-Antoine) Legrain, blue painted uppercase TH.DECK. 1870 mark on a glazed rectangular, the remainder of the back unglazed
Depicting a putto on turquoise ground clutching a blue and white pitcher, a piece of purple drapery trailing behind him
8 in. x 4½ in. (20.3 x 11.4 cm.)

Provenance

with Malvina Solomon, New York, 1999

Lot Essay

See Théodore Deck ou L'éclat des émaux 1823-1891, Musées de Marseille, p.132, nos. 108 & 109 for similar examples. Jules-Antoine Legrain was a student of Léon Cogniet, Joseph Robert-Fleury & Antoine Hébart, showing watercolours regularly at the Salon de Paris 1865-75. He was awarded a medal for his work on faïence at the Exposition of Vienna 1873 and painted large figures on the porch of the Beaux Arts pavilion at the Exposition Universelle Paris 1878.

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