Dessert plate
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Measurements
31 mm (Height); 233 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607375.3.5
Summary
One of 7 circular dessert plates, on foot ring. Painted in enamels with a man seated swigging from a bottle, whilst a white cat steals his food, and a lady looks on the scene through the bushes. Wide buff coloured border, white and gilt guilloche pattern rim. Part of a Harlequin dinner service of hard paste porcelain made by Pierre-Louis Dagoty of Paris, circa 1815. Pierre-Louis Dagoty became the leading Paris factory by 1807, supplying the Empress Josephine and the Imperial Court at Versailles and Compiegne. The factory survived until 1867.
Provenance
Believed to have been acquired by 3rd Lord Berwick: William Noel Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773 -1842) who had been in Italy as British envoy and ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, from the collection of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples. By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Marks and inscriptions
Manufacture Le S.M. L'Imperatric P.L.DAGOTY A PARIS (printed on base in sepia)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter