A PAIR OF SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE BISCUIT MYTHOLOGICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUES

CIRCA 1792

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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLUE AND WHITE BISCUIT MYTHOLOGICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUES
CIRCA 1792
Decorated in white relief on a stained light-blue ground, the first with Le Jugement de Pâris, with Paris and Mercury beside a tree, Paris awarding the golden apple to Venus, with Juno and Minerva nearby and Cupid firing his arrow at Paris, the second with L'Enlèvement d'Hélène, with Paris carrying Helen to a shore led by Cupid with a torch, with a ship and three hand-maidens carrying boxes of jewels nearby, within modern wood frames
Approximately 7½ in (19 cm.) high x 11¾ in. (30 cm.) wide excluding frames (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 14 June 1881, lots 94 (77 Gns. to Filpot sic.) and 95 (84 Gns. to Filpot sic.).
With Joseph Philpot of Pall Mall Place, London, 14 June 1881 (with manuscript note to the reverse of the Judgement of Paris).
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 11 December 2000, lot 408.

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Lot Essay

Emile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil de Modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIII Siécle, Paris, illustrate both The Judgement of Paris (p. 52, no. 372) and The Abduction of Helen (p. 41, no. 270).

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