The curved triangular form engraved with a female figure seated in a rickshaw and holding a fan, the driver leaning forward as he pulls the weight of his charge.
Every detail is minutely represented, from the ornamental geometric patterns on the reverse of the rickshaw seat to its multiple wheel spokes. The decorative designs of circles and stars on the female figure’s apparel are depicted, as are the varied wave and circular patterns represented on the driver’s clothing, and the ha supporting his geta, or wooden sandals.
Length: 10cm
Frédéric Boucheron’s designer Paul Legrand created a number of distinguished works in the Japanese taste principally decorated with vivid cloisonné enamels. Objects included containers inspired by incense boxes and large-scale centrepieces featuring Japanese figures in meticulously represented attires. The most famous was ‘le petit peintre japonais’ conposed as a young Japanese boy painting a screen of plique-à-jour enamel, his brushes, pots of colour and water bowl at the ready.
The dish is likely to have been designed by Paul Legrand and a rare survival of his Japoniste works composed entirely of silver.