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SIX PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE & GOLD GROUND INITIALED DESSERT PLATES
Lot 123 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOT 123)

SIX PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE & GOLD GROUND INITIALED DESSERT PLATES

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IRON-RED AND GILT MARKS

Closed20 October 2011

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SIX PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE & GOLD GROUND INITIALED DESSERT PLATES
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IRON-RED AND GILT MARKS
Each with a central gilt T. for 'Talleyrand' within a sunburst issuing anthemion, the blue-ground border with a chased gilt berried laurel band
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter (6)

Made for Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.

Specialist note

A number of plates from this service were in the traveling exhibition, Napoléom, An Intimate Portrait. See the exhibition catalogue (P.J. Chalençon, B. Topping and R. H. Etling, Coral Gables, 2005, p. 56) for an illustration of the plates, noting their historical provenance to the Talleyrand family and the Castle at Valençay.