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Gien Medium Blue Wall Decoration

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Title

Gien Medium Blue Wall Decoration

Description

1920? 8½" cream-colored plate with a blue-green colored design depicting WL. The plate reads "Fables de LaFontaine" and "Le Loup et l'Agneau." The smudged back stamp reads "Porcelaine opaque de Gien." $25 through an unknown source prior to 2007.

The block lettering is typical of Gien work. The wolf is looking up and even seeming to look beyond the offending lamb. It is hard to know whether this is a normal plate that a clever person has made into a wall decoration -- or whether Gien did the piercing of the glass back of the plate. As I say of the larger colored plate of TT done by Gien, it was apparently made from the start to adorn a wall rather than a table.

Source

$25 through an unknown source prior to 2007.

Date

Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Gien Medium Blue Wall Decoration,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed May 8, 2025, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1415.

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