Description:
French faience or tin-glazed earthenware lobed rim plate decorated in lavender and black. The well is painted with a chinoiserie graden scene of a boy holding an urn flanked by a large water bird and large tree. The rim is decorated with scalloped band puntuated with three-leafed sprays. The plate has a steeply, sloping curvature; the underside has evidence of a stilt mark and a label that reads "C. A. [?] Doe/ from/ S. O. Jewett". The donor bought the plate at the Doe estate auction in Rollingford, New Hampshire in 1983, an auction run by Dick Withington that consisted of the accumulation of several generations. The plate has a history of ownership by Sarah Orne Jewitt (1849-1909) of Berwick, Maine; she was an eminent author whose family had an illustrious history in colonial Massachusetts. The attribution to Rennes, France is based on Bernard Rackham's "The Glaisher Collection", who stated that the faience made at Rennes in the 18th Century followed the styles introduced elsewhere, producing figures similar to those of Nevers.
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