TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE LOUIS XV 'SERVICE GUIRLANDES DE BARBEAUX' (ASSIETTES UNIES)

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE LOUIS XVI 'SERVICE GUIRLANDES DE BARBEAUX' (ASSIETTES UNIES)

CIRCA 1783-1790, BLUE INTERLACED L'S TO EACH, ONE ENCLOSING AN INDISTINCT DATE LETTER AND WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUNEL, INCISED 31A, THE OTHER INCISED 33

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE LOUIS XVI 'SERVICE GUIRLANDES DE BARBEAUX' (ASSIETTES UNIES)
CIRCA 1783-1790, BLUE INTERLACED L'S TO EACH, ONE ENCLOSING AN INDISTINCT DATE LETTER AND WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUNEL, INCISED 31A, THE OTHER INCISED 33
Each painted with a pink rose spray within a pink band entwined with cornflowers, repeated at the border, a similar band entwined with berried laurel edging the cavetto, gilt dentil rim
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Louis XVI, delivered 1783-1790.
Property of a Nobleman; Christie's, London, 9 July 2001, lot 183.

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This lot is offered without reserve.

Sale room notice

Please note, the present two plates are from a service made for Louis XVI and not Louis XV, as incorrectly noted in the printed and e-catalogues for the sale. The delivery dates are correctly noted as circa 1783-1790.

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Lot Essay

See Christian Baulez, 'Versailles, vers un Retour du Sèvres', Revue du Louvre, December 1991, pp. 68-69 for a discussion of this service which was in use at Versailles. It was manufactured between 1783 and 1790 and known as service guirlandes de barbeaux and often referred to in the sales records as service du Roi. Each plate cost 15 livres and all deliveries were to M. Roth at Versailles (Jean-René Roth) who, with Jean-Sébastien Chavet, was contrôleur of the Gobelet du Roi. See also 'Versailles et les Tables Royales en Europe' Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 120, 142, 291, nos. 97-105.

Marie-Jeanne-Barbe Bunel is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the factory from 1777 to 1816.

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