Sale 6097
London, South Kensington
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22 May 2012
Price realised
GBP 2,750
Estimate
A SEVRES-STYLE ROYAL HUNTING-SERVICE (LE SERVICE DE CHASSE DE FONTAINEBLEAU) TYPE PART DINNER-SERVICE PROBABLY 20TH CENTURY, IMITATION PRINTED SEVRES CHATEAU DE FONTAINBLEU AND DATE MARKS After the Sèvres service made for Louis Philippe, duc d'Orleans, printed and painted with game animals and birds among meandering foliage, reserved with iron-red medallions of trophies between gilt line and key-pattern borders, a gilt foliate motif to the centre, comprising: twelve dinner plates, twelve soup plates and six side plates The dinner plates 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam. (30)
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