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Lot Essay
Philippe Parpette is recorded at Sèvres 1755-1757 and again 1773-1806 as a gilder, enameler and painter specializing in flowers.
See Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in Her Majesty's Collection, London, 2009, cat. no. 291, pp. 1018-1024 for a coffer and table of circa 1824 inset with Sèvres plaques of the 18th century. Two of these are still-lives of flowers on marble ledges by Parpette after paintings by Cornelis van Spaendonck, both signed with a double P. on the edge of the ledge and one dated 1795. The treatment of the bursting pomegranate is particularly similar to that found on the present plaque, as are the shaded green leaves with brown edges.
In comparing these three still-lives, similarities are evident, as is the development of Parpette as a painter during the intervening twenty years.
See Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in Her Majesty's Collection, London, 2009, cat. no. 291, pp. 1018-1024 for a coffer and table of circa 1824 inset with Sèvres plaques of the 18th century. Two of these are still-lives of flowers on marble ledges by Parpette after paintings by Cornelis van Spaendonck, both signed with a double P. on the edge of the ledge and one dated 1795. The treatment of the bursting pomegranate is particularly similar to that found on the present plaque, as are the shaded green leaves with brown edges.
In comparing these three still-lives, similarities are evident, as is the development of Parpette as a painter during the intervening twenty years.