TWO PARIS (LOCRÉ & RUSSINGER) PLATES painted by Margaret Mercer Elphinstone painted with three light-brown and white spaniels in a wooded landscape before a distant house, the other with a black, brown and white dog and a black dog, inscribed on the reverse M Mercer Elphinstone. Brush and Laura, within gilt line panels enriched with gilt scrolls, diaper and dot-ornament, the borders with gilt bands of scrolls enclosing dot and diaper-pattern panels and swags of acanthus leaves enclosing diaper-pattern, gilt line rims (the first with rim chip and associated hair crack at 6 o'clock and crack at 12 o'clock, rubbing to wells), blue crossed arrows mark, circa 1815

THE PROPERTY OF LORD ELPHINSTONE

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TWO PARIS (LOCRÉ & RUSSINGER) PLATES painted by Margaret Mercer Elphinstone painted with three light-brown and white spaniels in a wooded landscape before a distant house, the other with a black, brown and white dog and a black dog, inscribed on the reverse M Mercer Elphinstone. Brush and Laura, within gilt line panels enriched with gilt scrolls, diaper and dot-ornament, the borders with gilt bands of scrolls enclosing dot and diaper-pattern panels and swags of acanthus leaves enclosing diaper-pattern, gilt line rims (the first with rim chip and associated hair crack at 6 o'clock and crack at 12 o'clock, rubbing to wells), blue crossed arrows mark, circa 1815
23.5cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

MME, the monogram that appears on some of these plates is that of Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, born in 1788. She was the only daughter of Admiral George Keith Elphinstone (1746-1823), 3rd son of the tenth Lord. Her father was ennobled as Lord Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, and her mother was Jane Mercer of Aldie. She married, in 1817, the Count de Flahaut, ADC to Napoleon (and reputedly a natural son of Talleyrand). Flahaut afterwards became King Louis-Philippe's ambassador to Berlin, Vienna and subsequently the Court of St. James. She died in 1867

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