A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE PLATE FROM THE PRINCE DE ROHAN SERVICE (ASSIETE 'A PALMES')

1771-1772

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A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE PLATE FROM THE PRINCE DE ROHAN SERVICE (ASSIETE 'A PALMES')
1771-1772
The center with the initials LPR in two shades of gold enclosed within a wreath of acorns and oak leaves, the roots at the bottom, the border edged with gilt lines and painted with three oval panels of birds in landscape vignettes reserved within gilt ciséle bands on the turquoise ground further gilt with swags of oak suspended from rings between each panel, the molded palm fronds scrolled above each cartouche enriched in gilt
24 7/8in. (25cm.) diameter

Provenance

Louis-René-Edouard, Prince de Rohan
Prince Demidoff, Palazzo San Donato, Florence 1880
Earl of Dudley, Himley Hall, Dudley, Staffordshire; Christie's, London 1886
Leopold de Rothschild, Exbury, Hampshire
Anthony de Rothschild, Ascott Wing, England
Thelma Chrysler Foy, New York; Park-Bernet Galleries, Inc.,New York, 22 May 1959, lot 431 (40 pieces)
Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman, New York; Sotheby Parke-Bernet Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 329 (6 plates)
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 20 May 1989, lot 75

See anon. sale; Christie's, London, 8 November 1999, lot 127 for a pair of plates from this service

Lot Essay

The present plate is from a service ordered in 1771, the year the Prince de Rohan was nominated a Ambassador Extraordinary to the court of Vienna. Delivered in 1772, it is listed in the registery of deliveries under the 7th September and priced at 20,772 livres for 368 pieces, with plates listed at 36 livres each. Cf. Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain from the Royal Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, 1979-1980, no. 67.

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