Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 6,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(FAIENCE, etc.) Collection de Faiences [spine title]. Album of watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings on laid paper with watermarks of Dambricourt Frères of Hallines. [147] leaves, including calligraphic divisional titles within pictorial or decorative borders, and 40 blanks. 146x265 mm, contemporary 1/2 red morocco with monogram A.G. at foot of spine. France, later 19th century

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meticulously painted depictions of faience and porcelain ware in 3 parts: the first (Faïences Patriotiques, Période Revolutionnaire) contains 58 drawings of plates decorated with motifs or themes from the French Revolution; the second (Porcelaines et Faïences, Genres Divers) shows 21 examples of a variety of ceramics from Rouen, Delft, and elsewhere; and the third (Marques de Porcelaines et Faïences ) is a manuscript guide to mostly French manufacturers of the 17th-19th centuries with over 400 drawings of their monograms and marks.