Rare assiette Lot n° 20

Royal porcelain of Sevres of the 18th century, from the service delivered to the Count of Artois. A soft porcelain plate with polychrome decoration of a sowing of roses and foliage and on the edges of roses in ovoid reserves on a mosaic background of gold dots and partridge eye motifs in blue and red. Royal Manufacture of Sevres, 18th century, circa 1770-1775. Marked : LL interlaced in green, no letter-date, painter's mark C probably for Claude Couturier. D. 24 cm. Provenance Soft-paste porcelain service called "rozes et mosaïque" delivered on June 3, 1775 to Charles-Philippe de France, Count of Artois (1757-1836). History The decoration called "Rozes détachées et mosaïques" was used for the decoration of several services made in Sèvres between 1768 and 1775. The first one was delivered to the merchant Jean-Dominique Testard, acting on behalf of the Duke of Parma. The main part of this service is still preserved in the Quirinale Palace. Our soft porcelain plate probably dates from the years 1770-1775, it is part of the service delivered to the Count of Artois, on June 3, 1775, having undergone several subsequent restocking. Another service was delivered nine days later to the Marquis de Juigné, French ambassador to Russia, but this service, largely preserved in the Pavlosk Palace, is in hard porcelain. Finally, a service with a slightly different mosaic design was purchased by the merchant Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1771. Literature David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, nos. 69-1, 71-8 and 79-3.