A pair of Denuelle porcelain manufactory cabinet or dessert plates, Paris
circa 1825
painted with a female Valence gardener in festive dress and a Swiss male in rural setting within a gilt and green greek key border, iron-red stencilled uppercase marks, titled individually to verso 'Canton de Zug' and 'Jardiniere de Valence en habit de fete', with further incised marks,
22cm diameter

See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain of Paris, New York, 1972, p. 202. Dominique Denuelle of Rue de Crussol, Paris, won a silver medal in 1819 for his meticulous execution and 'a matt gilding which has arrested the attention of conoisseurs'.

Condition Report

Some general rubbing to the gilt and painted central scene. No damages or repairs.

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