1802-1803, STENCILLED IRON-RED SEVRES. ,, MARK FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR XI SEPTEMBER 1802 - 23 SEPTEMBER 1803, INCISED CC 1

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A SEVRES 'FOND ECAILLE' PLATE
1802-1803, STENCILLED IRON-RED Sevres. ,, MARK FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR XI SEPTEMBER 1802 - 23 SEPTEMBER 1803, INCISED CC 1
With a central bronzed cameo of a classical lady in profile to the right against a pale-blue ground, enclosed by a gilt band and a broad garland of flowers and fruit including roses, peony, grapes, pears and plums with sgraffito stems, the mottled bronzed border simulating tortoise-shell with gilt anthemion palmette garlands linked by stars and rosettes (two small firing faults, one to neck of cameo, one to well at 6 o'clock, very slight wear and scratches to centre, slight rubbing to gilding at well and rim, wear to gilt footrim)
9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's New York, 18th October 2002, lot 424.

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Lot Essay

See Tamara Préaud, 'The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847', Bard Exhibition Catalogue (New Haven, 1997), p. 173, for a watercolour and pencil design for a plate. It is not known who created the design (which is dated 1803), but Préaud suggests that it might have been produced by Charles-Eloi Asselin. The entry also records a delivery to the Emperor on 5th December 1804 of seventy-two assiette unie with tortoise-shell grounds, priced at fifty-four francs each (Register Vbb 2, fol. 6v). It is very probable that this plate, and the identically marked example sold Christie's New York, 24th April 2002, lot 30, was part of the order.

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