A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE LOUIS XV VERSAILLES SERVICE (ASSIETTES 'A GROSEILLES')

For a discussion of this service and its supplements see D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. II, pp. 345-348, service no. 63-2. Three ice cups from the service, formerly the property of Lord Kinnaird, removed from Rossie Priory, Perthshire and sold at Christie's, London, 3 July 1989, lot 73 are illustrated by Christian Baulez, Versailles, deux siècles d'histoire de l'art (Paris, 2007), pp.272-3, pl. 9. Both publications list the known examples in public and private collections and discuss the possibility of the dessert service being used first at the Pavillon français and subsequently at the Château de Trianon. Peters also draws attention to seven assiettes à groseilles sold Christie's, London, 6 April 1875, lot 55 which includes one example inscribed "Le Sieur, Aout, 1763".

A plates from this service was sold in the Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection; Christie's, Paris, 5-6 December 2001, lot 153 which was exhibited Paris, Mairie du Vème arrondissement, see De Versailles à Paris, le destin des collections royales, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1989, p. 263, no. 130, pl. 160.