IRON-RED STENCILLED SEVRES 11 MARK FOR REVOLUTIONARY YEAR XI (23 SEPTEMBER 1802 - 23 SEPTEMBER 1803), INCISED CC 1

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) FOND ECAILLE PLATE (ASSIETTE 'UNIE')
Iron-red stencilled Sevres 11 mark for revolutionary year XI (23 September 1802 - 23 September 1803), incised CC 1
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, also dated 1803.

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 as well as the identically marked example sold Christie's New York, 24 April 2002, lot 30 was part of this order.

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