Plate with Partridge Eye Décor and Buffon Bird (assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseau Buffon)

Plate with Partridge Eye Décor and Buffon Bird (assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseau Buffon)

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Plants in art | Trees in art | Birds in art | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | plant-derived motifs | trees | Aves (class)

35mm color slide of a plate (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Its rim has a green ground color with “partridge eye” decoration (œil de perdrix), which consists of white circles framed by colored dots, each highlighted by a prominent gilded dot at the center.  The well of the plate has a white ground and is painted with a bird inspired by the works of Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, in particular his celebrated work on birds, The Natural History of Birds (Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, 1770–86). This plate was painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734–1803; active 1754–1802), a painter whose “meticulous technique” was “unrivalled” at the porcelain factory (Savill 1988, 3:1029–30). The number 59 is handwritten on the slide.

See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on Dodin, painter's marks, and dotted grounds such as “partridge eye” (œil de perdrix).

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)

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1793 (date of object)

20th century (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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