Two wall brackets in Rouen faience, circa1725-30

Two wall brackets in Rouen earthenware with polychrome decoration in relief of a bearded man's head, foliage and stylized leaves with a small scale pattern. Attributed to Michel Poterat. Circa 1725-1730.
H. 29,5 cm.
Numerous chips and small missing pieces, the right part of the stylized leaves of the bottom is restored on a console.
The whole gives a great expressive power.
Cf. similar model, Gilles Grandjean, Peintures et sculptures de faïence, Rouen XVIIIe siècle, n°21, p. 97, Rouen, musée de la céramique inv. 590, Ed. Musées de la ville deRouen / Somogy éditions d'Art, 1999.