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Lot 170

A Sèvres plate, circa 1794

7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £637.50 inc. premium

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A Sèvres plate, circa 1794

Decorated by E.-G. Girard, 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 rim, 24cm diam., interlaced LL monogram in blue and painter's/gilder's mark Gi, incised mark (minuscule restored rim chip)

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The plate 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, revised edition 2015), V, no.94-3, pp.1047f), the description of which corresponds to the present lot. 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. Another two plates from this service were sold in these rooms, 5 July 2018, lot 208, and another from the Dr. Johannes Ralph Lafrenz Collection, 6 July 2021, lot 166.

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