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Pair of Vincennes Plates
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1753
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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A fine pair of Vincennes plates (assiettes à godrons) painted in a pink palette, camieau rose, with detailed country scenes, one with an upturned wicker basket of eggs, a milk churn, and a lidded churn, the other with a wicker hod, a large pumpkin or gourd (?) and a large wicker basket with bunches of radishes on the top, sticks of celery on the ground, and a small family of maggots or worms.
Both are marked with interlaced L’s and a central dot. Painter’s mark of a script y in the foot-rim, possibly Yvernel (Active 1750–9), painter of landscapes.
25.5cm Dia.
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Condition
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Small graze to one edge of gilded line that has been re-gilded.
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Literature
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DECORATOR AND DATE MARKS ON C18TH VINCENNES AND SEVRES PORCELAIN - David Peters, page 87.
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