"Nevers Earthenware Salad Bowl With Floral Decoration And Strong Gadroons, Early 18th Century"
Superb Nevers earthenware bowl from the early 18th century with high-fire decoration Central bouquet of peony and anemone flowers in cobalt blue, manganese oxide and copper oxide Around the gadroons in high relief in alum yellow with a crow's feet decoration On the rim is a very typical frieze of Nevers The whole is mounted on a strong piedouche Very large bowl, very deep with a very rare gadroon decoration Good condition despite some traces of time: missing glaze on the edges and a large firing fault with a small lack Original condition: no restoration No mark for this period diameter: 42 cm h: 13.5 cm