A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE SERVICE AGRONOMIQUE, one inscribed récolte des cerises with figures up ladders picking cherries, a donkey carrying panniers and children eating cherries and trying to reach branches of fruit from a woman, the other inscribed récolte et conservation des fruits de dessert, with farm workers carrying fruit to a fruit store before fruit pickers, within dark-blue bands with gilt cells and pale-blue borders with gilt anthemion, foliage, and dots (the first with restored rim chip at 3 o'clock), blue and sepia printed Sèvres marks below a star above the date code for 1831 and within a circle, various incised marks, painter's mark P and gilder's D and B.F.

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A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE SERVICE AGRONOMIQUE, one inscribed récolte des cerises with figures up ladders picking cherries, a donkey carrying panniers and children eating cherries and trying to reach branches of fruit from a woman, the other inscribed récolte et conservation des fruits de dessert, with farm workers carrying fruit to a fruit store before fruit pickers, within dark-blue bands with gilt cells and pale-blue borders with gilt anthemion, foliage, and dots (the first with restored rim chip at 3 o'clock), blue and sepia printed Sèvres marks below a star above the date code for 1831 and within a circle, various incised marks, painter's mark P and gilder's D and B.F.

Lot Essay

cf. H. P. Fourest, A. Hallé and T. Préaud, Porcelaines de Sèvres au XIXe siècle, no. 80 for another plate from this service

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