Press-molded pearlware blue transfer-printed platter with bridge and water scene surrounded by border of eagles and flowers. Slightly scalloped edge. Pattern name printed on bottom, "Upper Ferry Bridge over the River Schuylkill"
White porcelain platter, long oval shape with rim flaring up at 45 degree angle. Pink painted rim with narrow gold outline. Gold motif at center is concentric ovals of floral and foliate design; outer oval has 12 elongated flowers radiating outward.
No inscription on bottom, but attributed to Feuillet's rue de la paix workshop, Paris. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, Decorator (French, 1777-1840). See Notes
Additional pieces of this set of dishes in collection are 2013.008.
Rue de la Paix decorating studio, Paris
Provenance
Descent within Buchanan and Henry family to Pamela Henry (daughter of Frank Anderson Henry, Buck's youngest son) to Louisa Dent (donor).
Gold decoration worn with areas of loss. Streak of light abrasion on white, near gold band at one end of platter. Abrasions underneath at each end are darkened. Two footrings have some soil and wear.
Object ID
2015.029.6
Notes
Research on E-bay has dealer's statement:
"Feuillet introduced a porcelain decorating studio at the Rue de la Paix, Paris in 1820. The products came chiefly from the Royal Factory Sèvres. His successor was Boyer (1845)."
Another seller writes:
"The Feuillet studio was at 18, Rue de la Paix, advantageously located for the wealthy denizens of the area to come visit and make purchases. The Prince of Conde gave Feuillet his protection, thus assuring a constant flow of high-end clients. Feuillet's design atelier reached its apex in the mid-1820s, lavishly decorating some of the most remarkable plates of the time. The combination of rich paste gilding, saturated border colors and meticulous fruit or floral still life paintings made the factory's output one of the favorite choices, other than Sevres, for purchase by the new French Regime. According to the book "Paris Porcelain" by Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, "Feuillet was one of the best decorators in the Restauration period," (Paris Porcelain, page 244)."
