A DIHL AND GUERHARD YELLOW-GROUND GARNITURE OF THREE RETICULATED BASKETS AND RETICULATED STANDS

CIRCA 1792-1797, IRON-RED STENCILLED MANUFRE DE MM GUERHARD ET DIHL PARIS AND INCISED SCRIPT CAPITAL D TO EACH STAND

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A DIHL AND GUERHARD YELLOW-GROUND GARNITURE OF THREE RETICULATED BASKETS AND RETICULATED STANDS
CIRCA 1792-1797, IRON-RED STENCILLED MANUFRE de MM Guerhard et Dihl Paris and incised script capital D to each stand
Comprising a pair of circular footed compotes and deep stands and a single oval example similar, each bowl with rope-twist handles and fixed on a socle foot to the stand, pierced as open gilt staves secured with two interlaced fillets, the rims painted inside and out with concentric bands of trailing flowers in sepia enriched in gilt on a yellow ground and of gilt Vitruvian scroll on a striated ground
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) wide, the oval compote; 11 in. (28 cm.) high, the circular baskets (3)

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The present three baskets fixed on stands are likely supliments to a larger yellow-ground service made 1785-1790 when the factory was still under the protection of Queen Marie-Antoinette. See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelaine de Paris, XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles, Paris 1995, pp. 98-99, fig. 66 for examples of the earlier service now in a private collection. Included in the photo are two confituriers and covers in the form of vases 'Medicis', a nod to contemporary interest in the Antique. See also pp. 422 and 428, nos. 5-15 and 122-126 respectively for a discussion of the evolution of the factory's marks.

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