A SÈVRES (FIRST REPUBLIC) PORCELAIN FOND ECAILLE PLATE (ASSIETTE 'UNIE')

CIRCA 1804, IRON-RED STENCILLED SEVRES AND REVOLUTIONARY YEAR 11 MARK, INCISED CC

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A SÈVRES (FIRST REPUBLIC) PORCELAIN FOND ECAILLE PLATE (ASSIETTE 'UNIE')
Circa 1804, iron-red stencilled Sevres and Revolutionary Year 11 mark, incised cc
Finely painted in brown and enriched in gilt with the profile of a classical maiden reserved on pale-blue within a richly coloured wreath of flowers and fruit, the tortoise-shell border gilt in the Empire taste with foliate scrolls, rosettes, berried laurel and stars within gilt lines
9 3/8in. (23.7cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

See Tamara Préaud, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, Bard Exhibition Catalogue, New Haven, 1997, p. 173, for a watercolour and pencil on paper draftman's design for this work. Here it is suggested that the rendering might have been produced by Charles-Eloi Asselin. The entry also records a delivery to the Emperor on December 5, 1804 of seventy-two assiette unie with tortoise-shell ground, priced at fifty-four francs each - Registry Vbb 2, fol. 6v. It is likely that the present example was part of this order.

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