Live Auction 17140The Collector: English & European 18th & 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR PAULINE BONAPARTE
Lot 127

A SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR PAULINE BONAPARTE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1804-05, IRON-RED STENCILED M. IMPLE DE SEVRES MARK, INCISED POTTER'S MT AND 11 MARKS

Closed9 April 2019

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR PAULINE BONAPARTE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1804-05, IRON-RED STENCILED M. IMPLE DE SEVRES MARK, INCISED POTTER'S MT AND 11 MARKS
The center with a portrait medallion set on a faux marble ground with a puce-beaded gilt border, the rim painted with polychrome palms and foliage on a light blue ground, surrounded by three green panels containing paired swans and a fountain
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter

Pauline Bonaparte, imperial French Princess and Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano, delivered 6 November 1805.

Specialist note

The present plate was made for an 88 piece dessert service, ordered for Princess Pauline Bonaparte, sister of the Emperor Napoleon. See C. Leprince, Napoléon 1er & La Manufacture de Sèvres, L'Art de la Porcelaine au service de L'Empire, Paris, 2016, p. 260.