A pair of Svres matt-red-ground plates (assiette plate)

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A pair of Svres matt-red-ground plates (assiette plate)
from a service commissioned by Napoleon-Joseph-Charles-Paul Bonaparte, painted with a vignette of a bird perched on the side of a basin by an amphora above a pearl necklace and two birds, one on an open casket before an urn, within fretted roundels and wells gilt with a hatch pattern below scrolling leaves and stylised flowerheads, green S.52 and S.54 marks, iron-red crowned N marks, incised marks, 1852 and 1854 (very light rubbing to gilding of one) -- 24.2cm. diam.
See colour plate 11 (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (1994), pp. 230-232, no. 189, col. pl. 32.
Also see the examples from this service sold in these Rooms, 7th June 1996 lots 200 and 201.

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