A LIMOGES PATE-SUR-PATE DOVE-GREY GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
A LIMOGES PATE-SUR-PATE DOVE-GREY GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

CIRCA 1900, IMPRESSED AR MONOGRAM AND GRAND FEU LIMOGES MARK, SIGNED A.(UGUSTE) RIFFATERRE, LIMOGES

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A LIMOGES PATE-SUR-PATE DOVE-GREY GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
Circa 1900, impressed AR monogram and Grand Feu Limoges mark, signed A.(uguste) RIFFATERRE, Limoges
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a scantily clad maiden in a flower filled glen attended by birds in flight, one perched on her extended left hand
9½ x 6½ in. (24.1 x 16.4 cm.)

拍品专文

Auguste Riffaterre is recorded as a student at the Municipal School, Limoges in the late 1880's. See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, p. 88-89 and fig. 55 for another example of his work. Also see an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 12 March 1997, lot 121 for similar examples