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The islettes - Rare giraffe plate - SOLD
Les Islettes - Rare plate on board contoured polychrome decoration in the center of a Giraffe on a terrace encaded with shrubs, fluffy pink combed edge. The Zarafa giraffe, the first giraffe to arrive in France was offered as a gift by Mehemet Ali to Charles X in 1827. The Islettes, around 1830.
Les Islettes - Rare plate on board contoured polychrome decoration in the center of a Giraffe on a terrace
encaded with shrubs, fluffy pink combed edge.
The Zarafa giraffe, the first giraffe to arrive in France was offered as a gift by Mehemet Ali to Charles X in 1827.
Nineteenth century - around 1830.
A small shine on the edge and small swirls of enamel on the tasks of the giraffe (see photos)
Diameter: 23 cm
