Details
An extensive composite Sèvres and Paris pale-caramel ground monogrammed part dinner-service
Circa 1816
With gilt GDL monogram beneath and within gilt dot and pendant bands, the pale-caramel borders finely painted in sepia with entwined convolvulus divided by stylised palmettes between gilt bands, comprising:
Three circular tureens, two covers and three stands (one with foot damaged and cracked, one stand with rim chip)
A pierced centrepiece on a square base with paw feet (feet restuck)
A pair of gilt flared pierced baskets
Two small oval tureens and covers on fixed stands
Eighteen ice-cups and two circular stands with flared stems (one ice-cup with cracks to foot)
Two sauceboats with high scroll handles and stands (one sauceboat with chip to foot)
Four bowls with flared stems (one with rim chip and associated crack and another with cracks to interior of stem)
Two low flared bowls (one with crack to foot, the other with rim chip)
Eight oval dishes in three sizes (one with star crack)
Four octagonal dishes
Four navette-shaped dishes
Eight circular dishes (one with footrim chip), 11 ¾in. (30cm.) diam. Eight circular dishes, 10 ¾in. (27.5cm.)
Twenty-nine soup-plates (one chipped and cracked, four cracked, twelve chipped, one with footrim chip)
Two hundred and sixteen dinner-plates (one damaged, two with chips and associated hairline cracks, seven with hairline cracks, fifty-seven chipped, fifteen with footrim chips)
Twenty-six Paris dinner-plates (five cracked, one chipped)
Twenty-eight Paris side-plates (one with chip and associated hairline crack)
A Paris circular drainer
(minor rubbing to gilding), red stencilled marks M.IMP.LE./DE SEVRES/10 to most pieces, various painter's and incised marks
