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A Sèvres plate from the 'Service marli d'or', circa 1811 image 1
A Sèvres plate from the 'Service marli d'or', circa 1811 image 2
The Twinight Collection
Lot 92*

A Sèvres plate from the 'Service marli d'or', circa 1811

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

Sold for £12,800 inc. premium

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A Sèvres plate from the 'Service marli d'or', circa 1811

Painted with a scene 'Scènes de la vie punique et privée/ d'un Arabe', titled in black on the reverse, within a burnished gilt bans, the burnished gilt rim tooled with a border of alternating foliate motifs, 23.5cm diam., stencilled 'M.Imp.le/ de Sevres/ 1811' (?) in red, painter's mark S. in red, inscribed '4 M.B.T. et 6 m' in gilding (worn), incised T and H (very minor wear to edge of well)

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The Twinight Collection

The service started being produced in 1805 and continued being made until 1814, when the French monarchy was restored. Napoleon gave pieces from the service as gifts to King Friedrich August I of Saxony in 1809 and Prince Schwarzenberg, the Austrian ambassador, in 1812. The decoration included a variety of subjects, such as flower still lifes, landscapes, cameos and historical and genre scenes. See Samuel Wittwer, Refinement & Elegance - Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection (2007), p.246, no.60.

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