MOUSTIERS - Lot 341

MOUSTIERS Rare earthenware contoured rim plate with polychrome "rat" design depicting two Chinese on a terrace hunting with a bird of prey held by a cord and holding a rat in its beak. Flowering stems on the wing and purple fillet on the rim. Manufacture Ferrat 18th century D. 24.2 cm AJC Provenance: Former Ch. Roubaud collection Ferrat brothers Moustiers exhibition. Musée Cantini 1958 n° 131 Label on reverse: Musée Bernard d'Agesci. Niort Faïences Exhibition Oct. 3-Nov. 15, 2009 No. 205 and Donjon, Niort Ceramics Exhibition Summer 2010 Bibliography: - C. Curtil-Boyer Bulletin de l'Académie de Moustiers n° 2 1956 -1957 page 20 to 23. - L. Julien. L'art de la faïence à Moustiers. Edisud 1991 page 222 Provenance: F. and P. Deguingand earthenware collection.