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three plates with different designs on them sitting on a tablethree white plates sitting next to each other on a table
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105 - NEVERS Lot comprising: A plate with a curved rim, featuring …
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Estimate €80 - €150
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NEVERS Lot comprising: A plate with a curved rim, featuring a revolutionary polychrome decoration depicting, in the centre, the storming of the Bastille, with the inscription ‘Live free or die’ on a banner, and a frieze around the rim. 18th century (a few chips on the rim).Diameter: 2.5 cm. On the reverse, a label from the former TRUBERT collection. A similar example can be found in C. BONNET, *Les faïences révolutionnaires de la collection Louis Heitschel*, p. 176, no. 348.Two plates with a scalloped rim, featuring a polychrome Revolutionary decoration depicting the capture of a corner tower of the Bastille in the centre and a garland on the rim.18th century (slight loss of glaze and chipping on the rim of one; chips restored on the other).Diameter: 22.5 cm. Comparable examples in C. BONNET, Revolutionary Faience from the Louis Heitschel Collection, p. 176, nos. 347 and 348, and at the Rouen Ceramics Museum, inv. 2129 (reproduced in *Revolutionary Earthenware: Collections of the Rouen Ceramics Museum*, exhibition catalogue, p. 14, fig. 44).
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About the sale THE ESTATE OF MR X, FROM HIS HOME IN WEST PARIS
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Auction time 07/02/2026 at 1:30 PM
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