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F & S Plates & Bowls without Ivy Pattern

 

1920? Ceramic plate of GA by "Jars, France pour F & S." 10" in diameter. Scalloped rim. Tan with green edging, script, and illustration border around a circular full-color illustration of GA. "La Cigale et la Fourmi" and "Fables de la Fontaine" on the plate front. $12.87 from Charles W. Turner, through eBay, June, '04.

This colorful plate contrasts the brown of the grasshopper with the black of the ant. There is a sack, presumably of grain, in front of the ant's substantial home. Flowers and meadows seem to be blooming; is that appropriate for this scene, in which the grasshopper comes to the ant in winter?

 

1920? Ceramic plate of FC by "Jars, France pour F & S." 10" in diameter. Scalloped rim. Tan with green edging, script, and illustration border around a circular full-color illustration of FC. "Le Corbeau et le Renard" and "Fables de la Fontaine" on the plate front. $5.95 from Charles W. Turner, through eBay, June, '04.

This colorful plate has the crow leaning down to hear the fox's compliments just before he drops the round of cheese. A light colored stream edges the field in the background, with pleasant reeds, leaves and grasses filling out the scene. The fox, though his back is to us, looks up expectantly.

 

 

1920? Ceramic plate of "The Heron" by "Jars, France pour F & S." 10" in diameter. Scalloped rim. Tan with green edging, script, and illustration border around a circular full-color illustration of the heron. "Le Héron" and "Fables de la Fontaine" on the plate front. $5.95 from Charles W. Turner, through eBay, June, '04.

This colorful plate has the heron standing on one leg in the midst of calm water. Two features mark this excellent scene. One is that there is no other creature present. The artist rightly shows how the heron is at the center of his own world. Secondly, his eye looks out at us with something like disdain. Disdain drives the heron in this fable.

1920? Ceramic plate of "Le Lièvre et la Tortue" by "Jars, France pour F & S." 7½" in diameter. Scalloped rim. Tan with green edging, script, and illustration border around a circular full-color illustration of TH. "Le Lièvre et la Tortue" and "Fables de la Fontaine" on the plate front. $27 from loopylliz through eBay, Jan., '22.

This plate is exactly like others in the series but smaller in dimension.  The tortoise is near the goal as the hare sleeps on.

 

A handleless bowl 6" across featuring OF.  On the opposite side there is a panel with the fable's title and moral in cursive.  Around these two elements are a raised unpainted floral pattern.

This is the kind of bowl from which I love to drink café-au-lait when I am in Paris.  The image seems to me Rabier-like.  The ox looks back with a wary eye on the enlarged but not yet burst frog.

A handleless bowl 6" across featuring GA.  On the opposite side there is a panel with the fable's title and moral in cursive.  Around these two elements are a raised unpainted floral pattern. $15 from kalo*cstle through Ebay, Nov., '18.

This image is again something that could come from Rabier.  This is good, sturdy French tableware!

 

A pitcher 7½" high with the same brown ceramic and the same unpainted floral pattern.  The image here under the "Fables de La Fontaine" signature is of MM, the same MM image as the handleless bowl in the Ivy Pattern series.  On the other side of the pitcher is a panel offering four lines from late in the fable.  $28 from fabulousfinds68_2 on eBay, Feb., '17.

I presume that this is especially meant as a milk pitcher, but the fable does not augur well for the fate of this pitcher.  It is after all differently shaped from the pitcher in the image!

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