"Auguste Riffatte (1868-1935) Vases Rouleau Vegetal Decor Paste On Paste, Limoges Ca. 1900. "
Auguste Riffaterre (1866-1935), pair of porcelain vases with vegetal and animal decoration in pâte sur pâte, elements and motifs of ivy and gilded insects mounted on black-stained pearwood feet, Limoges, France circa 1900.Auguste Riffaterre is recorded as a pupil at the municipal school in Limoges in the late 1880s. See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, pp. 88-89 and fig. 55. For another example of his work. See the anon. sale, William Doyle, New York, June 6, 2001. Christie's, New York, March 12, 1997, lot 121 for a pair decorated with identical subjects executed on Berlin porcelain (KPM).
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