Lot 174
  • 174

Grand plat ovale en faïence de Choisy-le-Roi de la fin du XIXe siècle, vers 1880, manufacture d’Hyppolite Boulanger

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • porcelain
  • L 78 cm, larg. 52 cm
  • Length 30 1/4 in; width 20 1/2 in
à décor en relief et polychrome au centre de poissons, mollusques et anguille, l’aile ornée de tortue, écrevisses, coléoptères, escargots, chenilles et grenouilles sur des feuilles sur fond brun ; marqué : Choisy-le-Roi, HB et Cie ; (un serpent accidenté)

Condition

Head and tail of snake on rim broken and missing. Small chips to a beetle leg, three crayfishes’ pincers, one snail horn. A firing crack underneath.
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