A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATE
A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATE

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER CC FOR 1780, PAINTER'S MARK FOR PIERRE, GILDER'S MARK FOR PREVOST

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A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND ORNITHOLOGICAL PLATE
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter cc for 1780, painter's mark for Pierre, gilder's mark for Prevost
Painted with a bird in a landscape vignette within a gilt surround, the shaped green border with interlaced foliate scrolls forming large arched panels painted with similar birds followed by two smaller oval panels alternately painted with three roses or a butterfly, the birds all named in French on the underside; together with a Minton green-ground plate, circa 1860, impressed M mark, painted in the Sevres style with a bird in a landscape vignette, the green border elaborately gilt and chased with foliate scrolls and rosettes joining reserves of similar birds alternate with smaller medallions of single flowers
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) diameter, the Sèvres plate; 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diameter, the Minton plate (2)

Lot Essay

The gilding pattern found on the Minton plate is reminiscent of that found on a Sèvres service decorated with birds made for the comte d'Artois. On both plates, the bird decoration is almost certainly after Frangois Nicolas Martinet's illustrations for the comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux published in ten volumes between 1770 and 1786. The factory began using a copy of this treatise as a basis for decoration from about 1780.

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