Lot n° 393
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18000 - 25000
EUR
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: 23 055EUR
SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE. - Lot 393
SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE.
Manufacture royale et impériale, Sèvres, 1858.
Beautiful set of 12 hard-paste porcelain dinner plates, centrally decorated with a hand-painted polychrome medallion depicting a different view of France on each plate, surrounded by a gold frieze. The main "wing" border features a wide gold frieze decorated with small rosettes surmounted by palmettes on an agate-blue background. Each plate bears the identification in gold letters of the place represented: Au
Tréport (Seine-Inférieure) ; À Etretat (Seine-Inférieure) ; La ferme aux environs d'Yvetot (Seine-Inférieure) ; Aux environs d'Yvetot (Seine- Inférieure) ; Harfleur (Seine-Inférieure) ;
Chevet de l'église Saint-Pierre à Caen ; Environs de Rouen ; tour de Lillebonne (Seine-Inférieure) ; Château et la ville de Dieppe (Seine-Inférieure) ; À Eu (Seine-Inférieure) ; Au Bois
Guillaume, near Rouen; Basse vieille tour in Rouen.
Very slight age wear, one plate restored, but very good overall condition.
Green mark: SV, LP under royal crown (18)45, (18)55.
Gold mark: Sèvres, LP sous couronne royale, 1846, 1848.
Red mark: decorated in Sèvres, N under imperial crown (18)58. Diameter: 24 cm.
SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE PRESENT OFFERED BY EMPEROR NAPOLEON III TO FRÉDÉRIC LE PLAY The first "Petites Vues de France" service was delivered by the Manufacture de Sèvres in September 1825 as a present from King Charles X to the Duke of Polignac.
Charles X to the Duc de Polignac (1780-1847), then French Ambassador in London. Then, in 1832, King Louis-Philippe commissioned it for the Tuileries Palace, then the sovereign's official residence.
Each year, it was regularly restocked. This service was later destined for the Élysée Palace, where it was presented at official dinners. Several of these plates have remained at the Élysée and are sometimes used by the President of the Republic.
According to several sources, the service we are presenting was given in 1858-1859 by Emperor Napoleon III to Frédéric Le Play
Play (1806-1882), who was a senator and State Councillor, and played an active role in organizing the 1855 and 1867 Universal Exhibitions in Paris. Several other versions of this service exist, without resembling it, but with a variation in the border, notably for the one destined for the French Embassy in Berlin, delivered in March 1865. This service was intended to serve as propaganda at the table of the French court, allowing guests to admire the landscapes and monuments of France's most beautiful regions. The decorations were painted by Michel Langlois (active 1847-1872), Nicolas-Antoine Le Bel (active 1804-1845) and
Jean-Charles Develly (1783-1862), based on engravings from souvenirs pittoresques.
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