EIGHTEEN SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN JAUNE JONQUILLE DESSERT PLATES

CIRCA 1823, VARIOUS INCISED KILN DATES FOR 1823, THE WREATHS ENCIRCLING THE CENTRAL TROPHIES ADDED OUTSIDE THE FACTORY CIRCA 1848, SPURIOUS GREEN LOZENGE MARKS FOR 1848

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EIGHTEEN SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN JAUNE JONQUILLE DESSERT PLATES
CIRCA 1823, VARIOUS INCISED KILN DATES FOR 1823, THE WREATHS ENCIRCLING THE CENTRAL TROPHIES ADDED OUTSIDE THE FACTORY CIRCA 1848, SPURIOUS GREEN LOZENGE MARKS FOR 1848
Each painted in imitation of bronze in sepia and enriched in gilt with a trophy named below in French, four for beverages, three with ingredients found in pastries, seven for sweet desserts or candies, four for the Arts, the wide gilt-banded yellow border with a reserved band at the rim painted with a trailing berried vine, gilt line rims, the cavetto with a later-added wreath of stylized pink lilies enclosing the trophy
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter (18)

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Lot Essay

The gilt trophies on the present plates are from a series designed by Charles-François Leloy entitled Attributs des Petits Repas. See Christie's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 732 for a set of twelve similarly decorated plates without the added central wreath found on the present examples; also Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres, Musée National du Château de Compigène, pp. 126-127, no. 74 for a pair of vases 'Médicis', 4ème grandeur gilt with trophies also designed by Leloy, these emblematic of modern hunting (chasse moderne).

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