MANUFACTURE IMPÉRIALE

MANUFACTURE IMPÉRIALE
DE SÈVRES
Plate
in porcelain, marli with chrome green background
decorated with stylized flowers in gold
between two chevron braids, the center
decorated with a polychrome bouquet of flowers
surrounded by a frieze of gold arcatures.
Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres, mark
red stamp (the words "M(anufacture)
Imp(éria)le" have been deliberately erased
under the Restoration) and dated 1811.
Marked in green "36 a.D8." and in gold "G.".
Empire period.
Diameter: 23.7 cm.
(wear to decoration and gilding).

From the dessert service described
as "green background, rich gilding, bouquet
de fleurs" offered in 1816 by the new King
Louis XVIII to the Duke of Kent. This service is identical
to the one delivered in 1810 to Empress
to Empress Josephine at the Élysée Palace.
177 pieces.

The service then passed into the hands
of the Duke of Kent, his daughter Queen Victoria, then
daughter Princess Beatrice, then to her son
son Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of
Carisbrooke (1886-1960). It was mainly
dispersed by Christie's London in 1945.