Sevres Porcelain Plates, including a Madame DuBarry Service Plate
Item Details
A pair of Sevres porcelain plates, including (on the right) a plate from the service of Madame du Barry (1743-1793). This piece, a rare, delightful hand painted Sevres porcelain piece, painted painstakingly with cartouches of putti, laurel wreaths and baskets of flowers, ringed by bellflowers, with her ‘D’ monogram in the center. It has the U date mark for 1773 and LG painters mark for Louis-Antoine Le Grand with 20th Century ‘FRANCE’ export mark. The other, a Napoleonic III piece, has the S.46 stamp, which dates this plate to 1846, the Doré Á Sévres Mark is from reign of Napeolon III (1852-1870). Ruthgeerts refers to this mark as the ‘Imperial Period’ mark. The Sevres blanks were sold so the blank was made in 1846 and is indeed Sevres but the decoration is later and dates to 1868. It is decorated in a deep beige hue, with the Napoleonic monogram in the center, surmounted with an ivy motif.
Dimensions
- measured both units stacked as a whole.
Item #
16STA009-019
