NEVERS - Lot 39

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NEVERS - Lot 39
NEVERS Plate with polychrome decoration in full representing the Jeu de paume. Carry the inscription : " Caré 1757 ". 18th century, 1757. D. 24,6 cm. Restored chip on the edge and chips. Former Emile Gallé collection. Former G. Kuss collection. Former Jean Thuile collection. Tajan study, Paris, 24 November 2007, n° 93. About ten plates "au jeu de paume" are listed today: - Musée de Sèvres, inscription: Caré 1757, illus. exp. cat.: "Faïences françaises", Grand Palais, 1980, n° 224 and Jean Rosen, La Faïence de Nevers, vol. III, p. 139. - Lawn tennis Museum, Wimbledon, inscription: Caré 1757, ill. cat. exp. Fontainebleau 2001, no. 61 - Musée Carnavalet, inscription, Mason 1757, ill. cat. exp. Fontainebleau 2001, no. 59, reproduced in the Répertoire de la Faïence française, vol. III, pl. 39B. - The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, inscription: Mason 1757, ill. cat. exp. Fontainebleau 2001, no. 62 - Musée Clamecy, Nevers, inscription: Mason 1757, ill. cat. exp. Nevers, IV siècle de Faïences Françaises, 1987, n° 357 and Jean Rosen, La Faïence de Nevers, vol. III, p. 139. - Collection Georges Papillon, second sale, Lair Dubreuil, 7-9 May 1919, n° 140, inscription : Caré 1757. - Collection Camille Le Tallec, Ader-Picard-Tajan, Nov. 8, 1990, no. 704, then sale Paris, Fraysse study, Oct. 17, 2019, lot 105, inscription: Caré 1757, ill. by Taburet, M: La Faïence de Nevers, p. 108 The exhibition devoted to the Jeu de Paume in 2001 at the Château de Fontainebleau stated that the inscription Caré referred to Jean Claude Carré, a famous potter in the mid-18th century. In 1756, he joined forces with his brother-in-law, the great hammersmith Antoine Henri Masson. Thierry Bernard-Tambour suggests in the exhibition catalogue that these plates may have been made to consecrate this association. Jeu des rois, roi des jeux - Le jeu de paume en France, Château de Fontainebleau, 3 October 2001 - 7 January 2002, edited by Yves Carlier and Thierry Bernard-Tambour. Its source is an engraving first published in 1632 in Paris in Le Jeu royal de la paume, by Charles Hulpeau, and later republished under the title Vue d'un jeu de Paume by Vodert in the 18th century.
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