A Sèvres porcelain part service, 18th century, circa 1770-1775

including forty soft-paste porcelain plates with gadroons, a circular porcelain punch bowl and two circular soft-paste porcelain liquor pails, with polychrome roses and foliage, the rims with roses on a blue ground with blue, red and yellow dots, flowers, and œil de perdrix patterns, the pails marked with the interlaced letters LL, the letter R representing the date 1770, the mark of the painter Jean-Baptiste Tandart, the punch bowl marked with the interlaced letters LL with a blue crown, a trace of a letter, maybe X standing for 1775, the mark of the painters Etienne-Jean Grémont and François Drand, the plates mainly marked with the interlaced letters LL the letters P, R, U, V, X representing the date 1768 to 1775, a plate dated 1786 and two others dated 1792

There are two different designs on the plates: 21 plates with golden dots on a "oeil de perdrix" background, and 19 assiettes with green, purple and golds little flowers on a "œil de perdrix" background. Among the 21 plates, 7 have the interlaced LL mark, the letter R standing for 1770, without the mark of the painter. 1 plate marked in blue : interlaced LL, the letter U standing for 1773, the painter mark E 5 plates marked in blue or pink : interlaced LL, the letter V standing for 1774, the mark of the painters Niquet, François Barrat, Le Bel. 1 plate marked in blue : interlaced LL, the letter X standing for 1775 6 plates marked in black, red or pink : interlaced LL, without lettre-date, with the painter's marks : François Barrat, Le Bel, Pierre Jeune. 1 plate with a unified design, a later reassortment, marked : interlaced LL , the letters JJ standing for 1786. (Important wears an three chips on that plate) Marks of the 19 plates of the second model : 1 plate marked in black : interlaced LL, the letter P standing for 1768, the mark of the painter Pierre Jeune. 8 plates marked : interlaced LL, the letter R standing for 1770, the mark of the painters Bouillat and Pierre Jeune. 6 plates marked : interlaced LL, the letter S standing for 1771, the mark of the painter Catrice on three plates. 2 plates without any marks. 2 unified plates, later reassortment, marked : interlaced LL, the letters OO standing for 1792, the mark of the painter Madame Descoins Seven plates with chips, one with a chip, eight with wears at the center. The pails also have the design with little flowers. Both are marked with the interlaced LL, the letter R standing for 1770 and the mark of the painter Tandart. There are some minute wears to the gilding of one foot. The punch bowl : There is a chip (approx. 1cm) resulting in a crack going trough 3/4 of the diameter of the bowl, (approx 38 cm. long). A restored chip to he upper edge. There are some wears to the gilding of the upper edge.
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The 'Rozes détachées et mosaïques' (detached roses and mosaics) pattern was used for the decoration of several services produced at Sèvres between 1768 and 1775. Among those presented here, the plate dated 1768 was probably part of a service delivered to the dealer Jean-Dominique Testard, acting on behalf of the Duke of Parma and today most of the service is still housed at the Quirinale Palace. Twenty-one of our plates mainly dated between 1770 and 1775 as well as a plate dated 1786 and the punch bowl were most probably from a service shipped to Charles-Philippe, Comte d'Artois on 3 June 1775. Another 'rozes détachées et mosaïques' service was delivered, nine days after those to the Comte d'Artois, to the Marquis de Juigné, French Ambassador to Russia. This service, mostly kept in the Pavlosk Palace, is of hard paste porcelain, while our plates are made of soft paste porcelain. Only the punch bowl in our service is hard paste porcelain with another punch bowl delivered to the Marquis de Juigné and now in the Pavlosk Palace and the Comte d'Artois's service included two punch bowls. In 1786, the Comte d'Artois received some additions for his 'roze et mosaïque service', the presence here of a plate dated 1786 confirms this hypothesis. Nineteen plates and two ice pails dated between 1770 and 1771 (two additional plates dated 1792) are of a slightly different mosaic pattern, probably from a service bought by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1771.

For further research of these different services see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, No. 69-1, 71-8 and 79-3.