346 - Vincennes, Manufacture of Hyacinthe Seguin, circa 1785

Vincennes, Manufacture of Hyacinthe Seguin, circa 1785 Part of a service Hard porcelain. Comprising 20 plates, 6 soup plates, two refreshment buckets (damaged), 4 compotiers coquille, 2 covered oval sugar bowls on adjoining tray (damaged), one round dish. Polychrome monogrammed D decoration with roses in a border of flower bouquets. Marked: lambel plein in blue. Plates: Diam. 22.5 cm. Soup plates: Height 4.5 Diam. 21 cm. Refreshment buckets: Height 14.5 Diam. 19 cm. Compotiers: Height 6 Width 22.5 Depth 22.5 cm. Sugar bowls: Height 12 Length 23 Width 14.5 cm. Dish: Diam. 28 cm. Accents and gold wear. Provenance: collection of a Vendôme château. Vincennes hard-paste porcelain tableware set, monogrammed with a D and featuring roses, circa 1785. Bibliography: Cyrille Froissart, "La porcelaine d'Orléans et l'attribution des marques au lambel", in Sèvres, Revue des Amis du Musée national de céramique, 1999, p. 7-19. Hyacinthe Seguin's factory, founded in 1776, received the protection of the Duc de Chartres, Louis-Philippe-Joseph, future Duc d'Orléans, known as Philippe-Egalité (1747-1793). Séguin manufactures a service for his father, the Duc d'Orléans, "au chiffre de Monseigneur", mentioned in the Duc d'Orléans' after-death inventory in 1782. A letter from Séguin to the Comte d'Angiviller on April 8, 1779, states that he is currently in charge of making "three complete services, one for Mgr le Duc de Chartres, another for M. le Comte de Maillebois and the third for Mme la Baronne de Neukischen". Finally, a large service decorated with the monogram RS for Rouen-Sollé is preserved at the Château de la Motte Tilly.