Sèvres - Lot 233

Sèvres Hard porcelain plate from the service of the Comte d'Artois with polychrome decoration of a sowing of roses in the center and on the wing of roses in three reserves surrounded by three gold fillets on a mosaic background of partridge-eye motifs in gold, blue-green and red. Marked in green: LL interlaced and crowned, letter-date X for 1775, Le vé painter's mark and Leguay gilder's mark. 18th century, 1775. D. 24.5 cm. Provenance : Marquis de Juigné (1727-1807), then probably Paul Petrovitch, future Tsar Paul 1st. A single service with small roses and mozaic was produced in hard porcelain by the Sèvres factory. It was delivered on June 12, 1775 to the Marquis de Juigné, Minister Plenipotentiary in Russia from August 1775. The service was probably a gift from the Marquis de Juigné to Paul Petrovitch, the future Tsar Paul I, on the occasion of his marriage in October 1776 to Sophie Dorothée de Württemberg, the future Maria Feodorovna. Most of the service is still preserved in the Pavlosk Palace. (See Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art 1985-1989 , 1990, p. 197and Peters, op. cit. n° 75-4. The service is illustrated in Pavlovsk, The Palace and the Park, Paris, 1993, p. 15.