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Lot 156
Six Sèvres green-ground plates (assiette à palmes) from the service for Frederik V of Denmark or Madame de Pompadour, dated 1757
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £21,675 inc. premium
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Six Sèvres green-ground plates (assiette à palmes) from the service for Frederik V of Denmark or Madame de Pompadour, dated 1757
The rims moulded with scrolls and reserved with three oval panels painted with vignettes of birds in landscapes within gilt floral scrollwork cartouches, the wells painted with flowers, 24.8cm diam., four with interlaced LL monograms enclosing date letter D in blue, one with interlaced LL monogram in blue, incised marks (some wear) (6)
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Provenance:
Possibly from the service presented by Louis XV of France to King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway in 1758, or from the group of twenty-four plates owned by Madame de Pompadour;
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe, FSA FRS (1812-1894), Crewe Hall, Cheshire;
Thence by descent
See Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo - Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain (2021), Vol. II, p. 663, fig.15.5, where the author publishes a plate from the same service ('plate (assiette 'a petites palmes'), Sèvres porcelain, green ground painted with birds and flowers painted by Vincent Taillandier, date letter D for 1757, d.24.6cm, Langmead Collection; possibly similar to twenty-three plates with green borders in Mme de Pompadour's inventory').
In his memoirs the duc de Luynes mentions 96 plates were meant for the service sent to King Frederik V, which matches Lazare Duvaux's purchase at 60 livres each. However, only 72 were included in his bill to Louis XV of the service in the end (Savill op. cit, Vol. II, p. 661). David Peters has suggested the missing 24 plates may have been delivered to Madame de Pompadour instead (see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005, revised edition 2015), II, no. 57-2, p.302). 23 plates with green borders were listed in her 1764 inventory (one may have been broken by the time of her death). Ros Savill notes that presumably like the plates from the Frederik V service the plates were decorated with green borders, reserves of birds and flowers in the centre, or vice versa. She also suggests that Madame de Pompadour may have acquired them from Lazare Duvaux or they were given to her by Louis XV shortly after the duc de Luynes saw them.
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