BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS PP FOR 1792, VARIOUS PAINTERS AND INCISED MARKS

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A SÈVRES BLUE GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters PP for 1792, various painters and incised marks
The center with a garland of forget-me-nots in blue, yellow and puce within a gilt-edged blue ribbon, the border reserved with a gilt-edged scalloped band within which are 'growing' similar flowers, comprising:
Two oval dishes (compotiers 'oval'), 10½ in. (26.7 cm.) long
A shell-shape dish (compotier 'coquille'), 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) wide
Two lozenge-shape sauceboat stands (plateaux 'losanges'), 11½ in. (29.2 cm.) long
Two salad bowls (saladiers 'unis', 2ème grandeur), 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) diam.
A small salad bowl with shaped rim (saladier, 2ème grandeur, 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam.
5 juice-pots and covers (pot à jus et sa couvercle)
18 plates (assiettes 'unies'), 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. (36)

Provenance

Madame Lefebure, 5 June 1792 and 17 November 1793.

Literature

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, privately printed, Little Berkhamsted, UK, 2005, vol. IV, p. 965.

Lot Essay

The decoration on the present service is known in the factory records as festons bleus et souvenirs or simply service festons bleu. See Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, 1987, p. 353, no. 158 for the sauceboat from a similar service; also David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, privately printed, Little Berkhamsted, UK, 2005, vol. IV, no. 5.6.1792 and the corresponding kiln records in vol. Vii. See also The Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Christie's Paris, 5-6 December 2001, lot 249 for another plate from the present service.

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