CIRCA 1753-60, PAINTED BLUE AND INCISED HUNTING HORN MARK, R AND A BESIDE THREE DOTS MARKS

For a pair of similar plates in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, see Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIeme siècle, Paris, 1996, p. 240, and pp. 234-241 where the Le service mosaîque bleu et or is discussed at length and other examples are illustrated. The graphic sources for the central cartouches are the engravings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) for La Fontaine's Fables; the ground of the border is derived from a Chinese textile. There is a plate from this service in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (museum accession number 328-1905).