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A pair of Sèvres plates, circa 1794 image 1
A pair of Sèvres plates, circa 1794 image 2
Lot 208

A pair of Sèvres plates, circa 1794

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Sèvres plates, circa 1794

Each painted with a central bouquet of pink flowers and gilt wheat sheafs surrounded by a garland of blue forget-me-nots and leaves encircling a gilt line band and a gilt line border encircled with gilt foliage, the rim with a border between two blue lines of a foliate garland of blue forget-me-nots under foliate pink flowers issuing from the rim interconnected by gilt diagonal foliate branches, gilt dentil rims, interlaced LL monograms and painter's marks for P.-J.-B. Vandé (fils) (restored rim chip to one, small rim chip to other) (2)

Footnotes

The plates could be attributed to a service purchased by Madame Lefebvre, née Le Clerq, a Paris marchand-mercier, in 1794. The decoration is described as 'souvenirs différents' which David Peters matches to plate design no. 148 (see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005), V, pp.1027f), the description of which corresponds to the present lot. Additionally the kiln books for the service state that components were painted by Vandé (fils), another indication the plates may have been from this service. A plate with similar decoration elements, but with later additional decoration from the 19th century, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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