TWO SÈVRES SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN PLATES DATED 1784 |

decorated with central polychrome flowers bouquet, the rim with ribbons and flower garlands between golden nets, marked with the interlaced LL, letter date GG for 1784, marks of painters Nicquet and Tandart

Delivered to Pierre-Edmé-Berthelin de Mauroy in 1784

Former collection Anatole Demidoff, prince of San Donato (1812-1870). San Donato Palace in Florence, sale Me Charles Pillet, Paris, 23 Boulevard des Italiens, 23 march 1870, lot 177 Adela Ocampo de Heimendahl, Paris & Buenos Aires

Madeleine Ocampo de Casares-Lumb, Buenos Aires (by descent from the above)

Alberto Casares Ocampo, Buenos Aires (by descent from the above)

Thence by descent

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Vol. III, n° 84-12, pp. 743-744

Good overall condition.
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These two plates come from a service bought by Pierre-Edmé-Berthelin de Mauroy, honorary inspector of Sèvres, on November 25 1784 for unknown third parties. The decoration is described in the registers as rubans, guirlande et bouquets in the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.