Dessert plate
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
28 mm (Height); 220 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607396.7
Summary
One of ten circular porcelain dessert plates with shallow well and wide flattened rim. The centre field is painted with a lake in parkland, figures in foreground pointing to a tomb on right - 'vue du tombeau de J.J.. dans le parc d'ermenonville' (inscribed in gilt on the reverse).. Pink border decorated with repeated alternate leaf and rosette motif. Gilt line 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. The garden at Ermenonville was one of the earliest and finest examples of the French landscape garden. It was planned by Marquis René Louis de Girardin, the friend and final patron of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose tomb was designed by the painter Hubert Robert, and sits on the Isle of Poplars in its lake. Girardin's master plan drew its inspiration from Rousseau's novels and philosophy of the nobility of Nature. Rousseau's tomb is prominently situated on the artificial island in Ermenonville's lake.
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
vue du tombeau de T.T. dans le parc d'ermenonville (on base in gilt)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter