ANCIENNE MANUFACTURE ROYALE DE LIMOGES, Six porcelain plates - Lot 136

ANCIENNE MANUFACTURE ROYALE DE LIMOGES, Six porcelain plates decorated with "LES PECHES" after Ambroise Louis GARNERAY. Each plate features a central polychrome scene illustrating different types of fishing, with a rectangular cartouche at the bottom of each composition bearing the name of the subject: "pêche d'un étang", "pêche des grenouilles", "pêche des huîtres à la Drague", "pêche de la Sardine d'Royan" pêche du Vairon", "pêche du corail". The blue-ground border (wing) is decorated with a frieze of fish and maritime trophies in gold, framed by seaweed in platinum, and a gold frieze forming a fillet dotted with shellfish, fish and mollusks framing the cartouche at the bottom. Mark on back Diameter: 26 cm Very good condition This "Les pêches" model, reissued in 2002, was made between 1840 and 1852 by Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857), painter to the French Navy and painter at the Manufacture de Sèvres. The Musée du Louvre and the Manufacture et Musée nationaux de Sèvres hold examples of these plates.