Dessert plate
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
27 mm (Height); 223 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607396.8
Summary
One of ten circular porcelain dessert plates with shallow well and wide flattened rim. The centre field is painted with a rocky outcrop and figures boating on lake in foreground - 'le desert, 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. Created with care and craft, the garden came to resemble a natural environment, almost a wilderness, appearing untouched by any human intervention.
Provenance
Believed to be 3rd Lord Berwick collection. 'Heirloom' 1947 Probate Valuation p.14.
Marks and inscriptions
le desert, dans le parc d'ermenonville (on base in gilt)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter