"Small Earthenware Covered Bowl, Architectural Rockery Decoration, Dated 1770"
Plain fire earthenware covered cup or bowl with Louis XV decoration of an architectural landscape and rocaille of flowers and fruits. If the decoration of this delightful shaped piece is clearly inspired by Rouen productions of the mid-18th century, the finesse of the ceramic and the date of this covered cup under glaze below the bowl (1770) rather suggest the production of a peripheral and "regional" center for which the Rouen factories lost many earthenware makers during this period.
The quality of the decorations and the nice colors -very bright daffodil yellow, well-controlled red, shades of blue perfectly used in particular to create "grisailles",...), as well as the refinement of the handles (branch-shaped handles and pear-shaped lid fretel with its stem and leaves) could tend towards an attribution to a production of a factory in Sinceny (Aisne).
Very nice condition. To signal only a few tiny nibs on the edge of the bowl.
Dimensions:
17cm diameter with 2 handles (12,5cm without and 13,5cm for the top) and 10cm high
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