Manufacture de Halley - Assiette - XIXe siècle - Porcelaine, 22 cm de diamètre - Inv. 96 6 2
Plate
Manufacture of Halley
This soup plate belongs to a set created by the painter on porcelain Charles Halley. It takes up an iconographic theme developed since 1782 by the Royal Manufacture of Sèvres from the engraved plates of Buffon's Natural History of Birds (1770-1783). Yielding to the taste of the time for ornithology, each plate is dedicated to a bird, identified by its common name.
The blue marli (borders) enhanced with gold presents motifs of plant garlands, cups and architectural elements characteristic of the taste for the antique.
