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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU FALLOT PLATES (ASSIETTES 'A PALMES')
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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU FALLOT PLATES (ASSIETTES 'A PALMES')

BLUE DATE LETTER S FOR 1771, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK AND PAINTER'S Y FOR BOUILLAT, ONE WITH AN INCISED X

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU FALLOT PLATES (ASSIETTES 'A PALMES')
BLUE DATE LETTER S FOR 1771, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK AND PAINTER'S Y FOR BOUILLAT, ONE WITH AN INCISED X
The decoration of 'Starhemberg' type, each painted with scattered pink roses, the border with fleurs incrusté on the blue-ground gilt with oeil-de-perdrix, the scroll-molded rim with a gilt fan between each of the six lobes
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) diameter (2)

The Collection of Eugénie S. Breed, New York.
The Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 309 (twelve plates).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1989, lot 96.

Note du spécialiste

This shade of blue was first produced on a dinner service made as a diplomatic gift from Louis XV to the Austrian ambassador to France, Prince Starhemberg.

Edmé-François Bouillat père is recorded as a painter of flowers and birds at Sèvres from 1758-1810.