SÈVRES Lot n° 198

Hard porcelain plate, the rim with a nankin background decorated with a frieze of ivy and bunches of grapes in brown, the basin decorated with a frieze of palmettes in gold and in the center with a rosette decorated en suite. Gold chips and wear. Manufacture impériale de Sèvres, 1809. Red stamp mark dated "1809", gilder's and painter's marks. D. 23.5 cm. Provenance One of 150 dessert plates from the appetizer and dessert service described as "Nankin background, ivy and grapes in brown, gold frieze on the rim", entered the Sèvres auction house on August 29, 1810 (Arch. Sèvres, Vu1, fol. 98 v°), then delivered on July 15, 1815 to His Highness Prince Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Vbb5, fol. 4). It is likely that this service was offered by King Louis XVIII as war compensation or "indemnity" following Napoleon's defeat and enthronement. History Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt, born December 16, 1742 in Rostock in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and died September 12, 1819 in Krieblowitz, was a Prussian general and field marshal who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon I during the German campaign of 1813, the French campaign of 1814 and finally the Belgian campaign, which ended victoriously at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.