1781, MAUVE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS DD, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHAPPUIS, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK

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A SEVRES ROYAL DINNER-PLATE FROM A SERVICE MADE FOR MARIE ANTOINETTE
1781, MAUVE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS DD, PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHAPPUIS, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK
The centre painted with a bouquet of cornflowers, the border with a band of cornflower sprays between green bands reserved with pearl ornament, gilt line rims (some slight wear, minute flake to green enamel near rim)
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This plate is from a service listed in the Sales Registers no. 81-13 with a nominal sale date of 2.1.1782 in the list of 1781-82 end-of-year sales, and purchased by Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, see David Peters, Sevres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), Vol. III, pps. 645-646.

The service, which was a fairly comprehensive dinner and dessert service, may have been a principal service at one of the lesser royal châteaux. A part service with very similar decoration, and probably part of the same Royal service, was sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1893, lots 373 and 374 (Lord Revelstoke).

Antoine-Joseph Chappuis le jeune (later l'aîné) painted birds and flowers at Sèvres between 1761 and 1787.

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