10 Sevres Cailloute Blue Lapis Cailloute Plates, circa 1791. Finely painted with a central bouquet of flowers and fruit, the shaped rim with gilt pebbled border and three gilt scrollwork cartouches containing further flowers. The present set of plates is from either the service purchased by Florent-Louis-Marie, comte (later duc) du Châtelet-Lomont, Minster-Plenipotentiary of France to Austria, or by Claude Bonnet, an agent for the Court of Parma, in 1761—both are recorded as having services with this same decoration in that year. Plates in both these services cost 42 livres each at the time. See D. Peters, Sèvres Services of the 18th Century, vol. II, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, nos. 61-3 and 61-5, pp. 335-336 and 339-340 for a further discussion.
Jacques Fontaine is recorded as a painter and gilder at the Vincennes and Sèvres manufactories from 1752-1807.Jacques-François Micaud père is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1757-1810.Charles-Louis Méreaud le jeune is recorded as a flower and pattern painter at the manufactory from 1756-1780.Henry-Joseph Mongenot is recorded as a flower painter at the manufactory from 1754-1764.Guillaume Noël is recorded as a painter of flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1755-1807.Vincent Taillandier is recorded as a painter of flowers and ground patterns at the manufactory from 1753-1790.
Weight Approx., 5 lbs
Measures Approx., 9.5 inches diameter
Weight Approx., 5 lbs

Heavy utensil to center of plates. Minor chip to 4 of the plates, stacking wear