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three plates with different designs on them sitting on a white surfacefour pieces of white pottery sitting on top of a white table
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148 - NEVERS Set comprising: Two plates with a curved rim, featuri…
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Estimate €150 - €200
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NEVERS Set comprising: Two plates with a curved rim, featuring a revolutionary polychrome decoration in the centre depicting a peasant on a swing raising the emblems of the Clergy and the Nobility, bearing the inscription ‘nous jouons de maleur / le plus fort l’emporte’ (‘we play the game of misfortune / the strongest wins’) and a frieze around the rim. 18th century (broken into two pieces with chips on the rim). Diameter: 23 cm. A similar example can be found in C. Bonnet, *Les faïences révolutionnaires de la collection Louis Heitschel*, p. 158, no. 298. Two plates with a scalloped rim, featuring a polychrome Revolutionary decoration depicting the Altar of the Fatherland, over which hovers a cupid holding a banner bearing the inscription ‘Long live the nation, the law and the king’, surmounted by the inscription ‘Le Sermant Civique’. 18th century (chips on the rim of one plate have been restored). Diameter: 23 cm Similar examples are held at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, inv. C284, and at the Rouen Ceramics Museum, inv. 2143 (reproduced in *Revolutionary Earthenware. Collections of the Rouen Ceramics Museum, exhibition catalogue, p. 17, fig. 55).
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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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