PATRONYM PLATE - Jean and Marie Chevalier, 1784 White earthenware plate, painted in polychrome, decorated with Saint John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Names inscribed: "jean.chevalié..marie.maupoint./ .femme.de.jean.chevalié. / 1784". Nevers, late 18th century. Diameter: 22 cm (Minor visible accidents) We have found a Jean Chevalier who married a woman called Marie Maupoint on 3 April 1783 in Chênehute (Maine-et-Loire), probably the household mentioned on our plate. - André Supiot (1945 - 2010).