CIRCA 1730, PROBABLY MOUSTIERS

Details

A CONTINENTAL FAIENCE BLUE AND WHITE SHAPED-RECTANGULAR DISH
CIRCA 1730, PROBABLY MOUSTIERS
Painted with grotesques supported on plinths and strapwork within a lambrequin border
14 ¼ in. (36.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For a similar dish decorated with the marriage coat-of-arms of the duc de Richelieu and Marie Elisabeth Sophie de Lorraine-Harcourt and dated 1734, see Henry-Pierre Fourest and Jeanne Giacomotti, L'oeuvre des Faïenciers Français du XVIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1966, p. 128.

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