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
Each with slightly canted corners and decorated in white relief on a dipped light-blue ground, the first with Le Triomphe d'Amphitrite, Amphitrite riding her shell chariot borne by a Triton and drawn by dolphins, her Nereid attendants bearing gifts of pearls and coral, a winged putti suspending a canopy of billowing drapery above her and two winged putti with doves hovering in a cloud nearby; the second with La Toilette de Vénus, with Venus seated among clouds, playing with Cupid and attended by the Three Graces, one offering her doves, another selecting a jewel to adorn her hair from a shell held by a putti, another washing and perfuming her feet, in modern wood frames
Approximately 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high x 11½ in. (29 cm.) wide (2)

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Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 11 December 2000, lot 407.

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Emile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil de Modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIII Siècle, Paris, p. 51, no. 587 for an illustration of The Triumph of Amphitrite, and p. 55, no. 581 for The Toilet of Venus.

Plaques of this type were recorded as being sold by the shop at Sèvres from 1791. They were generally used for the ornamention of furniture - often supplied to a marchand-mercier such as Dominique Daguerre - or inclusion in the fabric of an interior, in the English manner, such as fire-surrounds or door-cases.