Description
18th century Sèvres porcelain plate Marks in manganese with two interlaced L, letter date x for 1775, mark of decorator for Mrs. Le Bel With polychrome and gold decoration in the center of a semi of roses, the wing of roses in gold cartridges standing out on a background "partridge eye" blue, red, green and gold, wear D. 24.5 cm. Provenance: most certainly from the service "roses and mozaiques" delivered on June 12, 1775 to the Marquis de Juigné, minister plenipotentiary in Russia, and finally perhaps delivered for the Tsarevich Paul Petrovich, future Tsar of Russia Paul I; or from the delivery of June 3, 1775 for the Count of Artois. Notes: For a glass rafraîihissoir with similar decoration, preserved in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, see by Nina Birioukova and Natalia Kazakevith, 18th Century Sèvres Porcelain, St. Petersburg, 2005, p.220, N.1041.
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18th century Sèvres porcelain plate Marks in manganese with two interlaced L, letter date x for 1775, mark of decorator for Mrs. Le Bel With polychrome and gold decoration in the center of a semi of roses, the wing of roses in gold cartridges standing out on a background "partridge eye" blue, red, green and gold, wear D. 24.5 cm. Provenance: most certainly from the service "roses and mozaiques" delivered on June 12, 1775 to the Marquis de Juigné, minister plenipotentiary in Russia, and finally perhaps delivered for the Tsarevich Paul Petrovich, future Tsar of Russia Paul I; or from the delivery of June 3, 1775 for the Count of Artois. Notes: For a glass rafraîihissoir with similar decoration, preserved in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, see by Nina Birioukova and Natalia Kazakevith, 18th Century Sèvres Porcelain, St. Petersburg, 2005, p.220, N.1041.
