A SÈVRES SHAPED SQUARE DISH FROM THE SERVICE ORDERED BY LOUIS XV FOR USE AT VERSAILLES (compotier carré de service à attributs et groseille), the centre painted with a loose circular garland of flowers, the border with musical and horticultural trophies and with gilt currant branches within a blue enamel foliage-scroll border and gilt line rim, blue interlaced L mark, incised 6c, circa 1765

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A SÈVRES SHAPED SQUARE DISH FROM THE SERVICE ORDERED BY LOUIS XV FOR USE AT VERSAILLES (compotier carré de service à attributs et groseille), the centre painted with a loose circular garland of flowers, the border with musical and horticultural trophies and with gilt currant branches within a blue enamel foliage-scroll border and gilt line rim, blue interlaced L mark, incised 6c, circa 1765
22cm. wide

Lot Essay

Service wares with trophy and berry decoration were purchased by Louis XV on a number of occasions in the 1760's and early 1770's

Cf. a plate from the same service exhibited De Versailles à Paris Le Dessin des Collections Royales, Paris 1989, no. 130 illustrated p. 160. Two plates from this service were sold in these Rooms on 12 March 1990, lot 9 and three ice-cups from the collection of the Rt. Hon. Lord Kinnaird were sold in these Rooms on 3 July 1989, lot 73

See Christian Baulez 'Versailles, vers un retour de Sèvres', Revue du Louvre, December 1991, pp. 67-68 for a full discussion of this service

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