Montpellier, Set Of 4 Beautiful Earthenware Tiles, Circa 1730

Beautiful series of 4 white earthenware tiles, particularly neat, to compose the pretty ember vegetable gardens or stoves of our region of Languedoc.
Each of these tiles of 12.5cm x 12.5cm x 0.8cm approximately, is decorated in high fire blue and manganese with a character, sheltered from sun under a large hat, pretty landscapes in a circle whose spandrels are painted with "Fleurs de Lys".
Use of muted blue, perhaps involuntary, like a surface wash is superb.
Probably made by Jacques Ollivier, before 1750, beautiful hand-made;
(I found this information in: Montpellier earthenware between the Middle Ages and the modern era: written sources, collections and archaeology. [article] Jean-Louis Vayssettes, Lucy Vallauri Sèvres.
Review of the Society of Friends of the National Museum of Ceramics Year 2016)
Good condition, a chip on one angle, squirrel is broken-glued, some wear and imperfections.
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