1790, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS NN, PAINTER'S MARK NQ FOR NICQUET, GILDER'S MARK LG FOR LE GUAY, INCISED 24

Details

A SEVRES PLATE (ASSIETTE UNIE)
1790, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS nn, PAINTER'S MARK nq FOR NICQUET, GILDER'S MARK LG FOR LE GUAY, INCISED 24
The centre painted with a bouquet of pink roses and blue cornflowers within a border of four pink ground medallions with blue flowers between bands of scattered pink roses within purple line and gilt dash borders between blue ground bands gilt with half-flowerheads and loops, gilt line rim (minute flake and blemish to gilt rim and very minor wear to gilt well)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Manheim Collection, sale Sotheby's, New York, 15 October 1996, lot 22
Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection, sale Christie's Paris, 5-6 December 2001, lot 234.

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Lot Essay

These type of plates were known as sample plates, 176 such examples were given in January 1790 to the painters, who had to invent their own designs, presumably to evaluate their skills. Normally these turned out to be too complicated for dinner services and sets of sample plates were seldom sold by the factory. An important group of sample plates were part of the Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection, sold at Christie's, Paris, 5-6 December 2001.

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