Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 92*
A Sèvres plate possibly from the Sefton Service, circa 1770
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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A Sèvres plate possibly from the Sefton Service, circa 1770
The centre painted with a flower basket, within a band of laurel leaves with berries, the rim with a gilt-edged turquoise fond Taillandier, reserved with six oval joined panels with trailing berried laurel leaves, three enclosing gardening trophies, 24.2cm diam., interlaced LL monogram in blue, incised LL
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Provenance:
Probably purchased by Simon Poirier, marchand mercier, in 1770;
The Earls of Sefton, London and Croxteth Hall, 19th century until 1973;
Purchased from Adrian Sassoon, London, in 2007
See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol. II, rev. ed. 2015, no. 70-6. A similar plate was sold at Sotheby's London, 22 January 2020, lot 252.