TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU AGATE' DESSERT PLATES FROM THE ‘SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE’

DATED 1839-1840, BOTH WITH STENCILED BLUE CROWNED LP MARKS, INCISED POTTER'S MARKS FOR 1838 AND 1839, ONE WITH PANTER'S MARK POSSIBLY FOR J.-B.-G LANGLACE, GILDER'S MARKS FOR F.-J.-M. VAUBERTRAND

Details

Each with light blue rim decorated with gilt palmettes, the center painted with a landscape scene within a gilt Greek key border, labeled below, the first depicting 'Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sèvres, Côté de la Cour Royale', the second depicting 'Château des Ctes de Dunois, À Châteaudun'
9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) diameter


Lot Essay

The 'Service des Petites Vues de France' was produced for the Palais des Tuileries under King Louis-Philippe and delivered from 1833. The first delivery included 133 pieces for an amount of 18,160 francs. Most of the landscapes were painted by Langlacé, Le bel and Develly. For the detailed list of this first delivery see the exhibition catalog by S. Grandjean and M. Brunet, Les Grands Services de Sèvres, Paris, 1951, p. 51.
Subsequent deliveries from this service include an additional 115 plates delivered to the National Assembly on 11 December 1846, 161 plates delivered to General Louis Eugène Cavaignac on 24 July 1848, and 59 plates delivered to the Palais des Tuileries on 31 January 1852.