A PAIR OF LIMOGES PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN GROUND OVAL PLAQUES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED F. PEYRAT

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A PAIR OF LIMOGES PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN GROUND OVAL PLAQUES
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED F. PEYRAT
Each finely painted and hand-tooled in white and colored slip with diaphanously draped maidens among lily-pads or flowers
7 ¼ in. high, excluding the frames

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F. Peyrat is recorded as a pâte-sur-pâte decorator that favored classical designs for Gibus & Redon in Limoges circa 1868-1890. The firm exhibited pâte-sur-pâte works of high merit at the 1879 Exposition des Beaux-Arts in Limoges.

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