Design for dessert plate /Assiette à dessert

Signed and annotated ink, lower right.

Circular 230 mm

The decorative arts master, Habert-Dys, trained at a ceramic factory in Blois in the 1860’s, then settled in Paris in 1873. He spent four years in the atelier/school of Jean Léon Gérôme and was influenced by the graphic artist, Felix Bracquemond, and the new influx of Japonisme. This is a preparatory drawing for a dessert plate, created while Habert-Dys was designing for the ceramic firm Pillivuyt; he was sought after by all the major ceramic firms and was commissioned to design a table service for the Exposition of 1889.