Plat oval de Chantilly, circa 1760

A Chantilly oval dish, circa 1760

Decorated with a blue trellis ground embellished with gilt dots, reserved in the centre with an oval panel painted with a flower spray within a gilt foliate and floral border, and six quatrelobe panels around the rim painted with flower sprigs within gilt scrollwork borders, gilt dentil border to rim, 29.7cm across, horn mark and R in blue, incised B (gilt border to rim worn)
Footnotes:
An oval dish decorated with the same pattern in the British Museum, inv. 1994.4-6.1, is illustrated by Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly (1996), p.239. A further example is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. BK-1966-108. A plate of the same pattern is illustrated by Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain (1994), p.42, item 45, col. pl.5.