Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four Painted Plate

Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four Painted Plate

C3662a. Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four painted porcelain hand-painted dessert plate, Art Nouveau and Oriental influences, using the Marseilles shape, a shallow dished form sculpted with a pierced and molded border of conventionalized “C”-scrolls chained with scrolled leaf and floriforms which are embellished with pendant bellflowers and scrolling vines, underglaze printed in flowing cobalt-blue with a large off-center flowering foxglove plant overlying a watery shoreline with reeds, accented in overglaze grey and black on the flowering plant, and richly finished by hand with metallic-gold trimming the molded border and even edging the foot rim. 
 
Attributed to Haviland and Company in Limoges, France, dating from 1891-1930. The bottom surface is underglaze printed in dark-green with a maker mark, underglaze printed in flowing cobalt-blue with a decorator mark, and overglaze signed by the artist who accented the flowering plants. The underglaze maker mark is configured with the manufacturer name, “Haviland” arching over the country-of-origin, “France.” The overglaze mark indicates the name and French city location of the decorator, “Haviland & Cº//Limoges,” above a trade-name for the special firing process using underglaze painting that is expressed in cursive, “‘Feu de Four.’” The name of the artist, “A. Armand,” is hand-painted in black along the base of the flowering foxglove plant stem. Good condition. Measures 8 ½" diameter. (KV3a) $245.00

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