https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/15632/fullPlate with a Scene from L’Astrée1650-1700Overall: 1.3 × 22.9 cm (1/2 × 9 in.)Tin-glazed earthenware (grand feu faience)The Pierre Karch and Mariel O'Neill-Karch Collection.Manufactured: Nevers, FranceG14.4.120The pastoral scene featuring lovers in a landscape may have been inspired by Honoré d’Urfé’s hugely popular pastoral novel L’Astrée (1607-1627). One of the most influential works of 17th-century French literature, L’Astrée is a monumental novel in six parts that tells the love story between a shepherd and a shepherdess, Astrée and Céladon. The dish is decorated in a style known as a compendiario inspired by Italian maiolica from the second half of the 16th century; it is characterised by loose brushwork using primarily blue and yellow.
French Faïence14th to 18th Century European Earthenware and Stoneware[]European CeramicsFrench Earthenware - Faïence1815965733FrenchSecond half of the 17th century, beginning of the 18th century