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)
White porcelain plates with 7/8" pink border and narrow gold outline. Wide gold inner outline of central area. Center image is two dogs in a landscape with tree.
Bottom inscription is: "Feuillet rue de la paix no. 20."
Some overpainting on inner outline of gold. Soil on underside of rim.
Object ID
2013.008.14
Notes
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).
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)
White porcelain plate with 7/8" pink border and narrow gold outline. Inner scene of large yellow and pink flowers with trees, arcaded masonry structure and mountain in background.
Bottom inscription is: "Feuillet rue de la paix no. 20."
White porcelain plate with 1.25" pink border and narrow gold outline. Central motif is a floral and foliate design of concentric rings. Outer ring radiates 12 elongated flowers or tassels. One of five plates.
Underglaze cursive inscription on bottom: "Feuillet rue de la paix no. 20." 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).
"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)."
White porcelain plate with 1.25" pink border and narrow gold outline. Central motif is a floral and foliate design of concentric rings. Outer ring radiates 12 elongated flowers. One of five plates.
Underglaze cursive inscription on bottom: "Feuillet rue de la paix no. 20." 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).
Very small (1/2" long) area of abrasion on white, near inner gold band. Some soil on footring.
Object ID
2015.029.2
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)."
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
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Notes
May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Accession Number
JBMS1996.450
Other Number
JBFP Part 3, Series 1, Subseries 2, Folder 93
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.