RARE PART OF SERVICE WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS, FUTURE KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE Including 54 dinner plates, 3 oval dishes, 1 round compotier in hard porcelain. With simple gold fillet on the edge, the marli decorated with the arms of the Duke of Orleans in gold. Paris, probably manufacture Nast, Restoration period. Unmarked, possible traces of "Nast" marks in red vignette. Plates : D. 23 cm. Provenance Louis Philippe d'Orléans, duc d'Orléans, future king Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850), most probably for the Palais Royal.

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