A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN TRAY (PLATEAU DU ROI)
Late May-September 1785, signed on a rock lower left Lamp.inv.
Of lobed oval form, painted en grisaille with a peasant boy seated at the base of a tree playing a pipe, his dog biting fleas, three ewes, a ram, a lamb, a cow and a bull listening contentedly at the right, the shaped border gilt with trailing vine and scrolls between gilt bands
7½ in. (19 cm.) long
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN TRAY (PLATEAU DU ROI)
Late May-September 1785, signed on a rock lower left Lamp.inv.
Of lobed oval form, painted en grisaille with a peasant boy seated at the base of a tree playing a pipe, his dog biting fleas, three ewes, a ram, a lamb, a cow and a bull listening contentedly at the right, the shaped border gilt with trailing vine and scrolls between gilt bands
7½ in. (19 cm.) long