Paris dealer Marc Maison will be showing this impressively large 2ft 4in (71.5cm) diameter French gilt bronze framed cloisonné enamel charger at the Biennale.
It combines the talents of Ferdinand Barbedienne of the famous French firm and André Fernand Thesmar, who trained as a flower painter and joined Barbedienne in 1872. The charger features a vase of brightly coloured flowers set on an exotic cloth against a blue ground. It is signed F Barbedienne Paris and monogrammed with two Fs and two interlaced Bs in the enamel and was shown at the Exposition de l’Union centrale des Arts appliqués à l’industrie in 1874.