A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PLATES FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR THE COMTE DU CHATELET (ASSIETTE A PALMES)

CIRCA 1767, EACH WITH BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, ONE WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR DOMINIQUE JOFFROY, THE OTHER WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR LEOPOLD WEYDINGER (PERE), INCISED CT AND A

Details

Each painted with a bouquet of fruit and flowers, the border with three flower-sprays, within gilt floral and palm frond oval cartouches flanked by gilt C-scrolls entwined with floral garlands, within shaped gilt line rim
9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm.) wide
Provenance

Acquired by Florent-Louis-Marie comte (late duc) du Châtelet-Lomont on 31st December 1767.
Literature

David Peters, Ibid., 2015, Vol. II, p. 388.
Lot Essay

Acquired by Florent-Louis-Marie comte du Châtelet-Lomont on 31st December 1767 between his posting as Minister-Plenipotentiary of France to Austria and his appointment as French Ambassador to Great Britain. The service included a mixture of 'bleu pontille' dinner wares and 'verd/vert fleurs' dessert wares. The present plate was one of 36 assiettes pour fruits in green, at a cost of 18 livres each. David Peters discusses the different components of the service, see Sèvres Plates and Service of the Eighteenth Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, Vol. II, pp. 387-388. An assiette à palmes dated 1767 is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. no. 37.20.235).
Dominque Joffroy was a painter of flowers and figures at Sèvres from 1754 to 1770 and Léopold Weydinger (père) was a painter of flowers and patterns and a gilder at Sèvres from 1757 to 1806.