Faience Majolica French Trompe l'Oeil 3d Sculpture Plate Topiary Lemon Style by Christine Viennet

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Offering a small rare authentic Christine Viennet porcelain sculptural three dimensional decorative plate, circa Late 20th Century. This lovely hand … Read more Offering a small rare authentic Christine Viennet porcelain sculptural three dimensional decorative plate, circa Late 20th Century. This lovely hand painted Trompe L'oeil plate depicts three whole bright yellow lemons with a lemon wedge and green leaves placed upon a blue, white and red floral plate.

Christine Viennet is famous for sourcing antique and vintage decorative porcelain plates to create her Trompe L'oeil sculptures upon them. In her earlier years, she utilized porcelain plates from Japan, Portugal, Italy and France. This particular plate is vintage Japanese Arita Ware from the Shoho Kiln as identified from the signature on verso. She usually blocks out the manufacturer logo of the plate, but this logo shows through since the previous owner accidentally cleaned and removed most of the artist signature, leaving behind an almost eligible signature. As seen in the photo of the back of the plate, the "C" from Christine and the final "T" from Viennet are legible.

Since we are familiar selling Christine Viennet's work and have sold several pieces over the years, we were able to determine from the remaining marks that this is an authentic early piece of hers from the late 20th Century. These particular style plates are extremely rare and hard to find, as few were made.

EXCELLENT VINTAGE CONDITION. The new owner will be very happy about its nearly immaculate condition.

SIZE:
5.5" diameter
2" high

THIS ITEM WILL BE DOUBLE BOXED TO ENSURE SAFE ARRIVAL.

CHRISTINE VIENNET BIO:
Christine Viennet was born in Norway in 1947. She studied at the Oslo School of Art, then apprenticed with two Norwegian artists, Rolf Hansen and Bente Von Krogh. Between 1965 and 1971, she worked with Father Paoli at the Abbey of Saint Michel de Cuxa and at ateliers of Lurçat and Picart Le Doux in Perpignan, France. Influenced by Bernard Palissy, the famous French naturalistic Renaissance ceramicist, Viennet creates with exuberance, vases, plates and sculptures. Her Studio and Museum (founded in 1990) presenting European Ceramics from the 16th to the 21st century with a large collection of Palissy is located at the Château de Raissac, near Béziers, southern France. See less