Lot 538
538
TWO SÈVRES PLATES, one painted with a central bouquet of pink roses within a border of pink and gilt flower-sprigs reserved with medallions of cornflowers and pink roses between blue band and gilt dot borders (slight chip to edge of rim), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter ii for 1786, painter's mark mb, incised 3I, the other with a bouquet of cornflowers and violets surrounded by scattered convolvulus, the border with trailing convolvulus between purple and gilt dot bands, blue interlaced L mark and jj for 1786, unidentified painter's mark RB, incised 24

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TWO SÈVRES PLATES, one painted with a central bouquet of pink roses within a border of pink and gilt flower-sprigs reserved with medallions of cornflowers and pink roses between blue band and gilt dot borders (slight chip to edge of rim), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter ii for 1786, painter's mark mb, incised 3I, the other with a bouquet of cornflowers and violets surrounded by scattered convolvulus, the border with trailing convolvulus between purple and gilt dot bands, blue interlaced L mark and jj for 1786, unidentified painter's mark RB, incised 24
24.5cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Marie-Jeanne-Barbe Buteaux, working period 1778-1816

Cf. Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 153-154, no. 127 for an example from the same service dated 1785 and the two pairs of plates sold by Sotheby's New York on 16 October 1980, lots 378 and 379

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