FIVE SÈVRES PLATES FROM THE SO-CALLED SERVICE DU ROI, the centres with a pink rose surrounded by two puce bands entwined with blue cornflowers, the wells with berried myrtle about a blue ribbon within a shaped gilt dentil rim, blue, puce or sepia interlaced L marks enclosing date letters ff for 1783, ii and jj for 1786, various incised marks, painter's marks y for Baudouin, unidentified V-t., BD for Baudouin and fleur-de-lys for Taillandier

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FIVE SÈVRES PLATES FROM THE SO-CALLED SERVICE DU ROI, the centres with a pink rose surrounded by two puce bands entwined with blue cornflowers, the wells with berried myrtle about a blue ribbon within a shaped gilt dentil rim, blue, puce or sepia interlaced L marks enclosing date letters ff for 1783, ii and jj for 1786, various incised marks, painter's marks y for Baudouin, unidentified V-t., BD for Baudouin and fleur-de-lys for Taillandier
23.5cm. and 24cm. diam. (5)

Lot Essay

Edmé-François Bouillat, working period 1758-1810
François Baudouin, working period 1750-1800

See Christian Baulez, 'Versailles, vers un Retour du Sèvres', Revue du Louvre, December 1991, pp. 68-69 for a discussion of this service which was in use at Versailles. It was manufactured between 1783 and 1790 and known as service guilandes de barbeaux and often referred to in the sales records as service du Roi. Each plate cost 15 livres and all deliveries were to a M. Roth at Versailles who was Jean-René-Christoph Roth who with Jean-Sébastien Chavet was contrôleur of the Gobelet du Roi

See also 'Versailles et les Tables Royales en Europe' Exhibition Catalogue, p. 120, p.142 and p. 291 nos. 97-105

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