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NEVERS Set comprising: A plate with a curved rim, featuring …
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140
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NEVERS Set comprising: A plate with a curved rim, featuring …
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
NEVERS Set comprising: A plate with a curved rim, featuring a revolutionary polychrome decoration depicting a funeral chapel surmounted by an urn surrounded by six poplar trees in a central medallion, and a frieze of leaves between two borders on the rim(this building may be reminiscent of ROUSSEAU’s tomb at Ermenonville, C. BONNET, Les faïences révolutionnaires de la collection Louis Heitschel, p. 149.) 18th century (a chip, pitting and wear on the rim).Diameter: 23 cm. Similar examples can be found in C. BONNET, *Les faïences révolutionnaires de la collection Louis Heitschel*, p. 149, no. 271, and at the Rouen Ceramics Museum, inv. 2077 (reproduced in *Revolutionary Faience: Collections of the Rouen Ceramics Museum*, exhibition catalogue, p. 22, fig. 80).Plate with a curved rim, featuring a revolutionary polychrome decoration in the centre depicting an urn placed on a tomb, a country house in the background, and flowering stems around the rim (with a single groove on the rim).Diameter: 22 cm. Similar examples can be found in C. BONNET, *Les faïences révolutionnaires de la collection Louis Heitschel*, p. 148, no. 267, and in J. GARNIER, *Faïences patriotiques. Contemporary Event-Related Designs from the Year 17S1, December 1991, p. 27, fig. VIII (26).
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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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