A PAIR OF SÈVRES SHAPED-OVAL DISHES (COMPOTIER OVAL

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES SHAPED-OVAL DISHES (COMPOTIER OVAL
MOSAÏQUE)
CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR ROSSET

Each center painted with a loose bouquet within a border of blue and gilt mosaïque pattern edged with gilt scrolls and with four shaped panels of bouquets with gilt seeded scrolls and with gilt line ring, gilt rims worn
11in. (28cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

See Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, Christie's New York, 21-22 March 1991, Lots 225-228 for other pieces with this decoration. This pattern, used at Sèvres as early as 1756, was made famous by the service given to the Elector Palatine in 1760 and now in the Residenz Museum, Munich.

Pierre-Joseph Rosset was active as a painter at Sèvres 1753-1795.