TWO RARE PLATES Lunéville, circa 1740–50.

TWO RARE PLATES

Lunéville, circa 1740–50.
Faience decorated in high-temperature colors. Shaped rim painted with island landscapes with chinoiserie figures and pagodas. One plate with painter’s mark "NP 2" in manganese.
Ø 23.3 cm.

Provenance:
- Stuker Auction, Berne, November 1992, Lot 3507.
- Koller Auctions, September 9–11, 1998, No. 1318.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Literature:
Marie-Alice und Jacques Bastian: Chinoiserie en faïence à Lunéville au XVIIIe siècle, in: Turqueries et autres chinoiseries (exhibition catalog). Château de Lunéville, 2009, pp. 54–71, fig. p. 57.

Augsburg engravings by Martin Engelbrecht (1684–1756) served as the graphic sources for these early chinoiseries at the Lunéville manufactory, an art-historical connection first established by P. Ducret (Bastian, "Lunéville" 2009, p. 71, note 2).

Early chinoiseries in high-temperature colors, already known from Rouen, are among the rare decorative schemes at Lunéville. The finest examples were painted and signed by Nicolas Pioche or his workshop (ibid., pp. 57–58).

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