BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS LL FOR 1788, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUCOT, INCISED 24

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A SEVRES DESSERT PLATE
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters ll for 1788, painter's mark for Boucot, incised 24
Painted with concentric bands of trailing cornflowers entwined around a puce filet alternate with myrtle entwined around a blue fillet, all centering a single rose, gilt dentil rim
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diameter

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The date letters on the present dessert plate are script ll for 1788.
The plate can be confirmed as from one of two deliveries in May of that year, supplements to the service initially delivered to Versailles five years earlier for guest or household use. For further details, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2005, vol. III-no. 83-2, vol. IV-nos. 85-2, 88-7, 89-2, 90-5.

Lot Essay

See Christian Baulez, "Versailles, vers un Retour du Sèvres", Revue du Louvre, December 1991, pp. 68-69 for a discussion of this service which was in use at Versailles. Known as the service guirlandes de barbeaux and referred to in the sales records as the service du roi, It was manufactured over the course of eight years from 1983 - 1790. Each plate cost 15 livres and deliveries were to a M. Roth at Versailles. This must refer to Jean-René-Christophe Roth who, along with Jean-Sébastien Chavet, served as contrôleur of the Gobelet du Roi.

See also Versailles et les table royals en Europe, XVIIème-XIXème siècles, exhibition catalogue, musèe national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Paris, 1993, p. 120 and p. 291, nos. 97-105. Felicité Armand la jeune is recorded as a flower painter at Sèvres 1777-1785.

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