Ceramics
Francois-Maurice Honoré's porcelain factory (Manufacture de Mme la Duchesse d' Angouleme) (Maker)
Rusell and La Farge (Agent for buyer)
Paris, France, Europe
1817-1817
Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze
Molded, Painted, Gilded, Printed
1958.1606.010
Object Number1958.1606.010 |
Plate (Dessert plate)
Ceramics
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
Francois-Maurice Honoré's porcelain factory (Manufacture de Mme la Duchesse d' Angouleme) (Maker)
1785
Rusell and La Farge (Agent for buyer)
Paris, France, Europe
1817-1817
1. Mark; Underside; Stenciled in orange enamel is the mark: "M.\ture de MADAME./ Duchesse d' Angouleme/ P.L. Dagoty. E Honoré/ a Paris."
2. Mark; Underside, near footrim; An incised workman's mark resembling "U" or "V"
Presidential china; Presidential provenance; Government; American eagle; American themed ceramics; Monroe, James; American ownership history (foreign manuf); American market (French manufacture)
Porcelain (hard-paste); Lime (alkaline) glaze
Molded, Painted, Gilded, Printed
1.201 (H) , 8.661 (Diam)
3.05 (H) , 22 (Diam)
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[Book] Savage, George. 1969 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain.
• Information on maker: pp. 199- 200
[Book] Klapthor, Margaret Brown. 1999 Official White House China: 1789 to the Present.
• Information on and illustrations of Monroe's dessert service: pp. 40- 47
[Book] Singleton, Esther. 1907 The Story of the White House.
• Singleton mentions that Munroe paid 2, 424 francs for the 30 person dessert service
[Article] Priddy, Sumpter & Quinn, Joan. 2008 A Monroe Punch Bowl and American Lithographers in Paris, 1814-1824. Ceramics in America. 186-202.
• Dessert plate from same Monroe service with larger discussion of Monroe ware decoration: See full article and, for dessert plate, p. 188, figs.4-5, identified as by Louis Dagoty and Edouard Honore, Paris, c. 1817
[Book] Conger, Clement E. & Rollins, Alexandra W. 1991 Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U. S. Department of State.
• Dessert plate from same service: p. 288, no. 179, with details on Monroe at whitehouse, service, etc.
[Electronic] US Depatment of State: Explore the Collections. US Department of State https://assets.diplomaticrooms.state.gov/explore-the-collection/
• James Monroe's mahogany side chair: Diplomatic Reception Rooms coll., accession no. RR-2004.0005, Philadelphia, PA, c. 1815-25, from set of 24.