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These plates are almost certainly from the service delivered to MM Boyd Ker et Compagnie, for M. Jaques Gordon, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. IV, pp. 897-898, 89-10. MM Boyd Ker et Compagnie were Paris banquiers headed by the Englishmen Walter Boyd and Robert Kerr, intermediaries purchasing the service for M. Jacques Gordon, perhaps James Gordon, an Englishman. The high packing cost would indicate that the service was perhaps shipped out of France.
A letter of 14th January 1790 from Joseph Lygo, Manager of the London warehouse of the Derby porcelain factory, to William Duesbury, mentions a service: '... dishes ordered for Mrs Gordon please to have forwarded as soon as possible and I hope you will exceed the French pattern' (see Ledger, Derby Porcelain Research, Vol. 1, 1998). The dishes in question were subsequently sold to Mr Gordon and might be a supplement to the Gordon Sèvres service. Gordon could have been the London resident, James Gordon, Member of Parliament.
Forty-eight plates were produced in the Sèvres service at the cost of 18 livres each. The decoration was described as Jardin and is probably a variation of Design No. 129 in the factory Album of Plate Designs which is marked as Jardin and with a price of 18 livres. The design had previously been used on other services sold in 1785 (Service List 85-11), on 13th May 1787 (Service List 87-4) and on 22nd February 1788 (Service List 88-2). The pattern was used throughout the period 1785-1792.
Part of a similar service bearing date letters between 1787-1792 is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, see Nina Birioukova, Natalia Kazakevitch, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 184-188, nos. 937-945. Plates from similar services have been sold including five plates with the date letters MM by Sotheby's, London on 16 July 1991, lot 53 and two 1789 plates by Sotheby's, New York on 23 April 1977, lot 74 and by Christie's, New York on 24 May 2001, lot 308.
A letter of 14th January 1790 from Joseph Lygo, Manager of the London warehouse of the Derby porcelain factory, to William Duesbury, mentions a service: '... dishes ordered for Mrs Gordon please to have forwarded as soon as possible and I hope you will exceed the French pattern' (see Ledger, Derby Porcelain Research, Vol. 1, 1998). The dishes in question were subsequently sold to Mr Gordon and might be a supplement to the Gordon Sèvres service. Gordon could have been the London resident, James Gordon, Member of Parliament.
Forty-eight plates were produced in the Sèvres service at the cost of 18 livres each. The decoration was described as Jardin and is probably a variation of Design No. 129 in the factory Album of Plate Designs which is marked as Jardin and with a price of 18 livres. The design had previously been used on other services sold in 1785 (Service List 85-11), on 13th May 1787 (Service List 87-4) and on 22nd February 1788 (Service List 88-2). The pattern was used throughout the period 1785-1792.
Part of a similar service bearing date letters between 1787-1792 is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, see Nina Birioukova, Natalia Kazakevitch, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 184-188, nos. 937-945. Plates from similar services have been sold including five plates with the date letters MM by Sotheby's, London on 16 July 1991, lot 53 and two 1789 plates by Sotheby's, New York on 23 April 1977, lot 74 and by Christie's, New York on 24 May 2001, lot 308.