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Lot 211

A Sèvres plate from the service made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, circa 1757-63

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £9,000

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A Sèvres plate from the service made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, circa 1757-63

Assiette à palmes, painted in puce camaieu with a central stylised floral and scrollwork motif including four interlaced LL monograms in gilding, the rim with flower garlands hanging from ribbon bows between moulded scrolls heightened in gilding, 24.9cm diam., incised marks (minor wear)

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Provenance:
Supplied to Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau;
Property from the Valentine Collection, sold Christie's New York, 21 October 2005, lot 82;
Acquired in the above sale

Purchased for specific use at the Château de Fontainebleau, the service remained in use in the royal household and was supplemented various times between 1763 and 1787; see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services (2005, revised edition 2015), vol. II, no. 57-1, pp. 297-299, where the present lot is mentioned as a circa 'D' plate (p. 299).

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