European Ceramics, Glass, Silver and Vertu

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Lot 43
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Four Sèvres biscuit portrait plaques French first quarter 19th century

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • incised B and AB, traces of an old collectors label
  • 8.5cm., 3¼in.; 6.5cm., 2½in.
in imitation of 'Jasperware', the smaller pair depicting Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, after Benjamin Duvivier, the other pair, modelled by Brachard le jeune, depicting Louis XVIII and his consort, Marie-Joséphine-Louise of Savoy

Catalogue Note

In her article on French biscuit porcelain (Apollo, August 1982), Aileen Dawson notes that Sèvres portrait plaques of the King and Queen after the jasperware examples of Wedgwood are produced as early as 1774. Portrait medallions of Louis XVIII are recorded in the magasin de vente in 1814. After the Restoration there was a revival of portrait medallions with pale blue grounds, and it is likely that both pairs of plaques date from that period.