Large Nevers earthenware dish from the second... - Lot 297 - Thierry de Maigret

Lot 297
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Large Nevers earthenware dish from the second... - Lot 297 - Thierry de Maigret
Large Nevers earthenware dish from the second half of the 17th century. With blue and manganese decoration in the centre of a mythological scene with Zeus and Venus and their symbolic animals in a landscape in a medallion, the wing with double crowned coat of arms framed with flowering branches and birds, nets on the edge, two holes for gripping; restored crack, small shock, gashes. D: 56 cm THE SCENE REPRESENTING ZEUS AND HERA Provenance: The coats of arms are those of the families Barentin (from Auvergne) and Perrot, from la Malmaison (from Île-de-France). Jacques Honoré Barentin: Successively Adviser to the Parliament of Normandy in 1647 and then in Paris, Master of Requests, then President of the Grand Council in 1655; Intendant of the King's Finances in Poitou from 1655 to 1669, then of Limoges until 1669, he was finally elected head of the Grand Council in 1676. He married Madeleine Perrot of La Malmaison in 1669, whose family member, François-Henry Perrot, developed the island that bears his name in Quebec.
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