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A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 1
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 2
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 3
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 4
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 5
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 6
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 7
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 8
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 9
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 10
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 11
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 12
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 13
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 14
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 15
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 16
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 17
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 18
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 19
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 20
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 21
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 22
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 23
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 24
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 25
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 26
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 27
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 28
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 29
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 30
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 31
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 32
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 33
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 34
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 35
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 36
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 37
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 38
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 39
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 40
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 41
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 42
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 43
A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808 image 44
Lot 200*

A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808

500 Years of European Ceramics
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £44,000 inc. premium

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A set of twenty Sèvres hard-paste dessert plates from the 'Service Fond Bleu Figures en Brun', circa 1808

Each painted by Pierre-André Le Guay, with a classical figure painted in brown and heightened in gilding in imitation of bronze, on a faux agate ground, the blue-ground rim with a formal border of gilt anthemia and lotus, 23.5cm diam., each with traces of factory marks, various incised marks (20)

Footnotes

Provenance:
With Gerald Sattin, London, in 1988 (some);
With Seidenberg Antiques, New York (the remainder);
Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private Collection

One plate depicts an enthroned figure inscribing a tablet 'Empire Francais'.

See Camille Leprince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres (2016), no. 114, and Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain in the British Museum (1994), pp. 215-217, no. 179, for a full discussion of the service. Another plate is in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Aileen Dawson (1994), no. 179. Other plates from the service are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Accession no. 1987.224) and The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1904.225).

The service first appears in the sale records in 1806 under the name 'service Leguay', after the artist Le Guay, who was paid 19 francs and 40 centimes for 'figures en brun rehaussés d'or' on six plates from August-September 1806. It arrived at the factory factory saleroom on 8 March 1808, where it was entered into the sale register as 'Service de dessert sur fond beau bleu figures en brun rehaussées en or sur fond caillouté'. The figures have been identified as having been after engravings by Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (1780-1850), who later worked at the factory between 1812 and 1835. It is unknown who the service was originally intended for and it ended up staying on the factory shelves until the auction between December 1826 and January 1827.

A plate from the service sold at Christie's New York, 14 June 2017, lot 175, and four further plates were sold at Sotheby's London, 22 January 2020, lot 260.

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