Lot 15: A Group of Limoges Porcelain Cabinet Plates and Telephone Figurine

This lot comprises several items of Limoges porcelain featuring transfer-printed romantic scenes in the Rococo style after Fragonard. The group includes three circular display plates with scalloped, gilded rims and deep burgundy-red borders decorated with gilt foliate filigree and scrollwork. Each central vignette depicts a courting couple in a pastoral setting and bears a printed FRAGONARD signature. Also included is a novelty figurine in the form of a rotary-style telephone, finished in a matching burgundy-red glaze with a transfer-printed vignette on the base and a gilded handset and cradle. The underside of the plates features two printed marks: a green arched stamp with a sunrise motif over U / E / C / LIMOGES / FRANCE, and a black stamp with a crown above LA REINE / LIMOGES PORCELAIN / MADE IN FRANCE. The base of the telephone figurine bears an impressed mark reading LIMOGES / FRANCE.