Crown of Thorns Pate-Sur-Pate Plaque, Limoges Porcelain Portrait of Christ by A Barriere of Limoges, France circa 1900
This plaque in beautiful deep blue with translucent porcelain slip painted on it by the famous artist A. Barriere is quite simply breathtaking. The skill and artistry required to produce a work of this quality are almost beyond words and definitely beyond photography. To really appreciate this you have to see it, hold it, feel it. Magnificent.
Barriere has created a masterpiece in porcelain. The plaque has then been set into a deep plaster frame. The frame has seen better days, with a couple of small chips and a slightly stained back where it has, presumably, been hung against a damp wall, perhaps in a monastery or church but the plaque itself is perfect.
Work by Barriere is rare and always commands high prices. Please follow this link to see what work by this artist sells for at the world famous Christie's auction house http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-small-limoges-pate-sur-pate-plaque-signed-a-5160235-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5160235&sid=455d2263-86f1-4b1a-8f26-fed2593e30fe
Fortunately I found it at an antique fair here in France and am able to offer it at a very much lower price.
The plaque measures 12 cm in diameter and including the frame it is 20cm. It weighs 975gms so it is a substantial piece.
Pâte-sur-pâte is a French term meaning "paste on paste". It is a method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush. The effect is somewhat similar to other types of relief decoration such as Jasperware, but as a mould is not normally used, the artist is able to achieve translucency.
To understand pâte-sur-pâte fully, we need to go back to France in the 1850s, and an accident that occurred at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. They were trying to reproduce a decorative technique from a Chinese vase, but misinterpreting the vase, the experiment took them along an altogether different path from the Chinese potter. Be it luck or fate they perfected what became universally known as pâte-sur-pâte.
The operation involves painting a thin wash of slip onto a coloured but unfired piece of porcelain. Subsequent layers, sometimes in different colours, are added when the earlier layers are dry, gradually, sometimes over weeks or months, building up a design in varying thicknesses and intensities.
The design can then be sharpened by engraving and the piece fired.
The technique was developed at Sevres c1850-75 by Marc-Louis Solon. At the outset of The Franco-Prussian war Solon fled France and joined the Minton Factory in England and continued his work there.
Limoges porcelain is rightly famous throughout the world for the quality of its porcelain and the exquisite nature of the enamel work produced there over many hundreds of years.
This exquisite plaque will be shipped with international tracking
This plaque in beautiful deep blue with translucent porcelain slip painted on it by the famous artist A. Barriere is quite simply breathtaking. The skill and artistry required to produce a work of this quality are almost beyond words and definitely beyond photography. To really appreciate this you have to see it, hold it, feel it. Magnificent.
Barriere has created a masterpiece in porcelain. The plaque has then been set into a deep plaster frame. The frame has seen better days, with a couple of small chips and a slightly stained back where it has, presumably, been hung against a damp wall, perhaps in a monastery or church but the plaque itself is perfect.
Work by Barriere is rare and always commands high prices. Please follow this link to see what work by this artist sells for at the world famous Christie's auction house http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-small-limoges-pate-sur-pate-plaque-signed-a-5160235-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5160235&sid=455d2263-86f1-4b1a-8f26-fed2593e30fe
Fortunately I found it at an antique fair here in France and am able to offer it at a very much lower price.
The plaque measures 12 cm in diameter and including the frame it is 20cm. It weighs 975gms so it is a substantial piece.
Pâte-sur-pâte is a French term meaning "paste on paste". It is a method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush. The effect is somewhat similar to other types of relief decoration such as Jasperware, but as a mould is not normally used, the artist is able to achieve translucency.
To understand pâte-sur-pâte fully, we need to go back to France in the 1850s, and an accident that occurred at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. They were trying to reproduce a decorative technique from a Chinese vase, but misinterpreting the vase, the experiment took them along an altogether different path from the Chinese potter. Be it luck or fate they perfected what became universally known as pâte-sur-pâte.
The operation involves painting a thin wash of slip onto a coloured but unfired piece of porcelain. Subsequent layers, sometimes in different colours, are added when the earlier layers are dry, gradually, sometimes over weeks or months, building up a design in varying thicknesses and intensities.
The design can then be sharpened by engraving and the piece fired.
The technique was developed at Sevres c1850-75 by Marc-Louis Solon. At the outset of The Franco-Prussian war Solon fled France and joined the Minton Factory in England and continued his work there.
Limoges porcelain is rightly famous throughout the world for the quality of its porcelain and the exquisite nature of the enamel work produced there over many hundreds of years.
This exquisite plaque will be shipped with international tracking
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