Maison de Vente Bürgi
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Set of four earthenware plates from the ‘Fruits and Vegetabl…
See original version (French)
100
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Set of four earthenware plates from the ‘Fruits and Vegetabl…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
Set of four earthenware plates from the ‘Fruits and Vegetables’ series, featuring satirical scenes
Four plates from the series entitled ‘Fruits and Vegetables’, featuring a black-and-white printed design depicting personified vegetables in satirical and humorous scenes, each accompanied by a witty caption:
No. 12: The Cabbage — a burlesque scene centred on a giant cabbage
No. 9: The Tomato — a market vendor showing her tomatoes to a customer
No. 11: The Potato — a street scene, a man peeling a potato
No. 10: The Gherkins — a market vendor and customers in front of a stall
Plate decorated with a frieze of ivy and small flowers (bindweed) in shades of black.
This caricature series on the theme of vegetables is characteristic of 19th-century ‘talking’ plates or motto plates
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