Dessert plate
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
30 mm (Height); 233 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607401.1
Summary
One of two circular porcelain dessert plates with shallow well and wide flattened rim. The outer rim is decorated with an inscription: 'BRIGADIER DE DRAGONS.7eme REGIMENT'. The centre field is painted with a brigadier (corporal?) of the 7th Regiment of Dragoons shaking the hand of a woman from his bay horse. Beige border decorated with repeated leaf motif and gilt line borders. Made by Pierre-Louis Dagoty 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 de S.M.l'Imperatric P.L.DAGOTY A PARIS (printed on base in sepia)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter