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A Sèvres ornithological plate, circa 1794 image 1
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Lot 229

A Sèvres ornithological plate, circa 1794

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

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A Sèvres ornithological plate, circa 1794

En suite with the previous lot, decorated with a fond jonquille oiseaux, white well with polychrome bird in landscape after Buffon, titled on the reverse in blue script 'La grande linotte des vignel.' (sic.), the rim in yellow with maroon frieze,
24.3cm diam., Sèvres.R.F. p for the painter Guillaume Buteux (1782-94)in blue over jd in black script and T

Footnotes

The birds on this service were copied directly from François-Nicolas Martinet's illustrations for Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon's ornithological publication, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, published in ten volumes between 1770-1786. These illustrations were frequently used at Sèvres as sources for decoration.

This plate and the subsequent lot in this sale are related to three amalgamated services produced first in 1791 (see: D.Peters (2015), 92-2,) The maroon frieze was generally described at the factory as 'Etruscan' and the pattern appeared in production several times, two additional times as services, and several times as loose service wares. The last addition appears to have been a large service purchased by François Speelman (likely Franciscus Norbertus Speelman (1748-1817), a cotton merchant) in 1795.

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