A medium size serving plate with gilt edge Wide pink band and scene in center featuring winter scene, man riding horse.May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Rue de la Paix no. 20 (decorating studio), Paris, France. Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
A medium size serving plate with gilt edge Wide pink band and scene in center featuring winter scene, family walking.May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Rue de la Paix no. 20 (decorating studio), Paris, France. Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
A medium size serving plate with gilt edge Wide pink band and scene in center featuring summer scene, mill with waterwheel. May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Rue de la Paix no. 20 (decorating studio), Paris, France. Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
A medium size serving plate with gilt edge Wide pink band and scene in center featuring summer scene, dry creek bed. May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Rue de la Paix no. 20 (decorating studio), Paris, France. Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
A medium size serving plate with gilt edge Wide pink band and scene in center featuring summer scene, river bed with falls. May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Rue de la Paix no. 20 (decorating studio), Paris, France. Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
A medium size serving plate with color transfer-printed edge. Wide pink band and scene in center featuring "Shakespeare's House". May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
White porcelain plate with 1" pink border and narrow gold outline at edge. A half-inch-wide band of gold encircles central painted landscape with a dismounted rider wearing top hat and riding gear standing with horse and nearby barking dog.
Bottom inscription is: "Feuillet rue de la paix no. 20."
Hairline crack across center of nearly entire plate. Overpainting on inner and outer bands of gold and probably the pink border at center left and right of scene. Pink paint is cracking and lifting at left. Chip at right side (3:00 o'clock) with lifting pink paint on underside of edge. Underside has dulled and darkened areas under both sides of rim where crack extends, indicating overpainting.
Object ID
2013.008.09
Place of Origin
Paris, France
Usage
Buchanan, James
Credit
Gift of the Family of Eleanor N. Henry (John D. McNeill Jr., Mary Catherine Henry West, James Buchanan Henry IV, and Elizabeth Henry Richardson)
