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Saucer
Desprez, Jean-Louis (1743-1804)
Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, pale peach coloured ground, eight cornered rectangular cartouche painted in polychrome enamels with figures before the town of Strongoli in a mountainous landscape with a frame of gilding, small white ground cartouche above inscribed in French. Deep border of gilding, tooled, polished and in relief, comprising anthemions pendent from a broad beaded band rim lined in brown. Landscape taken from plate 56 facing p 101 of volume III of Voyage Pittoresque ou Description Des Royaumes de Naples et Sicile, by the Abbe Richard de St.-Non (Paris,1783) Two small rim chips.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30049
Creation/Production
Vienna state factory
Desprez, Jean-Louis
Acquisition
Purchase, 28/6/1989
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.4
Depth
(cm): 13.4
Height
(in): 0
Depth
(in): 5
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
on-glazed
decoration
Applied Art
ground colour
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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