Dessert plate
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Measurements
25 mm (Height); 218 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607392.5
Summary
One of seven circular hard paste porcelain dessert plates on foot ring, showing a 'Vue du pont de St. Maurice' (painted inscription on the reverse). Painted with the Bridge of St. Maurice over a river in a mountainous landscape, with a shepherd, sheep and goats in the foreground. Wide buff coloured border with gilt line, alternating rosette and husk borders. 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
e (scored on reverse)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter