Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Derby, Sceaux, Loosdrecht and New Hall porcelain with Duvivier decoration

Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Derby, Sceaux, Loosdrecht and New Hall porcelain with Duvivier decoration

A Chelsea-Derby soft-paste porcelain plate, c. 1770, painted in the center by Fidelle Duvivier in rose camaïeu with a cherub holding a bird, and seated amidst musical instruments and a cage on clouds, the scalloped rim with a lightly molded edge delineated with gilt lines and scrolls pendent with a rose and pink meandering ribbon interrupted with gilt-heightened turquoise grapevines and foliate clusters extending into the lightly fluted cavetto. Conjoined anchor and D mark in gold. Diameter: 9 in. (22.8 cm.) (Inv. RES 55.31, reserve collection)