Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
ELEVEN SEVRES PLATES (ASSIETTES 'UNIES')
Lot 43 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

ELEVEN SEVRES PLATES (ASSIETTES 'UNIES')

1791, BLUE AND PUCE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS OO, VARIOUS PAINTER'S MARKS INCLUDING BOUILLAT, NIQUET, DROUET AND TANDART, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

Closed27 November 2013

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ELEVEN SEVRES PLATES (ASSIETTES 'UNIES')
1791, BLUE AND PUCE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS OO, VARIOUS PAINTER'S MARKS INCLUDING BOUILLAT, NIQUET, DROUET AND TANDART, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS
Each gilt with a central rosette reserved on a blue medallion, within a garland of yellow, blue and pink flowers, within a gilt-edged blue circular band, the border with a scalloped gilt band enclosing radiating sprays of flowers, within gilt line rims (three with chipping to rim, one with small restored rim chip, some slight rubbing to gilding and surface scratching)
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 2009, lot 489.

Specialist note

This service was purchased by M. Verdier, a trade intermediary or banquier on 1 December 1791 and it was one of two large Sèvres services purchased by Verdier in the same year, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. IV, pp. 939-940. The present service was known for incorporating a number of new shapes and styles, including the saucière 'nouvelle' based on an antique lamp, see the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, p. 353, no. 158.