Limoges-style French Porcelain Plate with Courting Couple
A large decorative French porcelain plate in the Limoges style, early 20th century. The plate with shaped and moulded edges decorated with an enamel highlighted transfer print of an 18th century courting couple in a landscape setting. Diameter 13.19 in.
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- Transfer Printed / Decorated Transferware - Transfer printing is method of decorating ceramics, reducing the cost of decoration when compared to employing artists to paint each piece. A print was taken on transfer-paper from an engraved copperplate, covered in ink prepared with metallic oxides, and the image on the paper was then applied to the biscuit-fired ceramic body. The print was fixed by heating the object in an oven, and then glazed, sealing the picture. Early transfer prints were blue and white, as cobalt was the only colour to stand firing without blurring. Early in the 19th century advances in the composition of the transfer paper resulted in better definition and detail, and enabled engravers to combine line-engraving with stipple.
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- Limoges (France)
