Cup
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 607421
Summary
Hard paste porcelain cup and saucer. The cup has tall flared sides and is raised on circular foot ring. Gilded interior pierced with white stars, battle scene to exterior, set in gilt borders, French navy panel painted with alternate gilt bee and star motif, guilloche style border. Porcelain saucer with curved sides and raised on circular foot ring. Centre field painted with oval miniature of French officer (possibly a portrait of Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Empress Josephine). 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
Dagoty A PARIS (printed on base in sepia) and paper label 'T G and Co 507'
Makers and roles
Pierre-Louis Dagoty (1771 - 1840), potter