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Lot 146

A Sèvres blue-ground plate (Assiette à palmes), circa 1769

6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres blue-ground plate (Assiette à palmes), circa 1769

Painted by J-J. Pierre (le jeune) with scattered roses in the well, the rim with a bleu Fallot-ground reserved with flower sprigs against a pattern of gilt dotted circles, the moulded edge of the rim embellished in gilding, 24.8cm diameter, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter q and painter's mark P' for Pierre (le jeune) in puce, incised CT (restuck section to rim)

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Provenance:
English Private Collection since the 1930s;
Anon. sale, Bonhams Oxford, 17 October 2012, lot 233;
Purchased in the above sale, Property from the Collection of Dr. Johannes Ralph Lafrenz

The present lot may have been from one of two Rozes et Mosaïque services, the service purchased by Milord Comte D'harcourt, probably 1st Earl Harcourt, on 1 October 1769, or the service purchased the duc de Choiseul in December 1769.
See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the Eighteenth Century (2005), II, nos. 69-5 and 69-7 for a full discussion of both services.

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