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A group of ten Vincennes/Sèvres white plates (assiette à bouquets), together with three oval white dishes and an oval white sugar bowl and cover, circa 1756-70 image 1
A group of ten Vincennes/Sèvres white plates (assiette à bouquets), together with three oval white dishes and an oval white sugar bowl and cover, circa 1756-70 image 2
Property from Crewe Hall (lots 155 - 163)
Lot 159

A group of ten Vincennes/Sèvres white plates (assiette à bouquets), together with three oval white dishes and an oval white sugar bowl and cover, circa 1756-70

7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A group of ten Vincennes/Sèvres white plates (assiette à bouquets), together with three oval white dishes and an oval white sugar bowl and cover, circa 1756-70

Each with a moulded border with interlacing C-scrolls between branches of flowers tied with ribbon bows, gilt dentil border to the lobed rims, together with three oval dishes (27.5cm and 31cm long) and a sugar bowl and cover (sucrier ovale à compartiments, 15.5cm long), the plates: 24.5cm diam., interlaced LL monograms in blue (three plates cracked, some chips and losses to the gilding) (15)

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Provenance:
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe, FSA FRS (1812-1894), Crewe Hall, Cheshire;
Thence by descent

Madame de Pompadour gave two sugar bowls and covers of this shape and decoration in 1761 to her valet, Gourbillon; see Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo - Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain (2021), Vol. II, p. 915 and fig. 18.29.

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