NEVERS. Salad bowl with polychrome decoration known as "à l'arbre d'amour". On the rim, the inscription "Belles quitte moy ces amants qui ne son for you that ice deniche them of desus this tree cesses to make them presents coupes moy the tree by the trunk and and laugh at their audacity, make them fall in the square, they are cowards and cowards / Ladies, we are going to come down down appeased all your fury we're going to give you our hearts what do you want to undertake then we're going descend dear lovers and do not be rebels you will be tenderly loved by your faithful mistresses. 1790 ". Late 18th century. Diameter: 32 cm. Provenance : - Label P.M. Sestié, purchase La Rochelle 24/6/2000. Bibliography : - Cf : Rosen, la faïence de Nevers, tome 3 p. 42, fig. 41. Expert : Manuela Finaz de Villaine