Quimper faience oval dish Porquier-Beau storyteller and children twentieth Britain
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Superb flat oval edges bypassed in Quimper faience signed Porquier PB-Beau *, representing a picturesque scene with a narrator telling a story to a young woman and her two children in the garden of a cottage, decorated with coats of arms (crowned shield flanked by two lions) at the top, vintage early twentieth century.
This dish is in good condition. It is signed on the bottom and ass.
A report: slight defects of enamel at the bottom and ass, see photos.
* In 1875, the painter Alfred Beau joins the pottery Porquier. Alfred Beau is the first artist to give a creative breath of Quimper pottery. In collaboration with Porquier from 1873 to 1903, he created lavish sets: Botanical series called yellow-edged (about 122 different models listed), Breton scenes (about 225 models) and scenes from legends (7 models) and as views of Breton landscapes (about 20 models).