Wholesale Serving platter with openwork handles in cream earthenware – Art Deco style – France

Round serving dish with two openwork handles in fine earthenware, covered in a creamy ivory glaze of luminous white. The rim unfolds into a succession of geometric cartouches outlined by thin brown-red lines, each adorned with a stylized fan motif in shades of brown, red and green, highlighted with gold. The handles, pierced with an oval cutout, are traversed by a continuous frieze of interlacing gilding. Undecorated white reverse, well-formed ring foot. Diameter 26 cm, overall width with handles 31 cm. This dish bears the restrained elegance of early 20th-century French manufactories, at a time when geometric ornament began to supplant the floral arabesques of Art Nouveau. A table piece designed to be seen as much as it is used. Placed on a sideboard or console, it makes a handsome display for cheeses or dried fruit. Hung on the wall in a characterful kitchen, it becomes a decorative object in its own right.