Plate

The plate is incomplete, with a few missing edges, one of which has been filled in with plaster. It is circular in shape with a plain rim. On the front, the rim slopes slightly inwards, and the wall slopes towards the bottom, which is flat. On the reverse, the plate rests on a milled foot, the base of which is unglazed; the bottom is recessed and flat. The body is beige, and the object is covered with a bluish-white enamel. There are three traces of a pernette in a triangular pattern on the reverse. The enamel is shiny. The enamel around the rim has partially disappeared ; The decoration is hand-painted in polychrome cobalt blue, underglaze, and red, violet, yellow and green overglaze. Vegetal and floral motifs. The decoration is found on the marli, on the wall and on the base. The decoration on the rim consists of a blue-painted fillet near the edge, bordering a row of red-painted semicircles, each adorned with a blue-painted pearl. The decoration on the wall is a blue-traced braid adorned with two alternately repeated motifs: there is a blue-painted trifoliate motif, with green-painted leaves and two red-traced fillets, and a red-traced half-flower painted yellow. The background is composed of a blue terrace with red highlights, on which long purple stems are supported by leaves painted in yellow. There are also two flowers, including a stylized peony traced in violet with red and yellow highlights, and trifoliate leaves painted in blue and green.