1756, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D

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A SEVRES QUATREFOIL DISH
1756, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D
Probably painted by Parpette, the centre with a loose bouquet of flowers and fruit, the scallopped well edged with a gilt line, the border moulded with foliage scrolls, the ground reserved with four elongated panels of flowers edged with gilt scrolling foliage and flowers, within a quatrefoil gilt line rim (slight wear to gilt rim, minute restored section, perhaps over a rim chip)
11¼ in. (28.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

James de Rothschild Collection, sale Rheims-Laurin, Paris, 1st December 1966, lot 38 (part).

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Lot Essay

Philippe Parpette was a painter of flowers, a gilder and an enameller active 1755 to 1757 and 1773 to 1806. The companion dish from lot 38 in the 1966 Rothschild sale bore Parpette's mark and a date letter for 1753, a year before he started work at Vincennes. It would appear that Parpette most probably decorated both dishes in 1756.

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