Twelve Sevres Style Limoges Porcelain Cabinet Plates.
Auction Date: March 18, 2022
Estimate: Estimate: 600 - 800
Sold for: $960
Lot: 3613
Limoges, Paris and Philadelphia.
Circa 1900.
Rococo style, scallop moulded deep plates, the rims with pale lavender and yellow panels under gilt rims and with gilt outlines, framing polychrome enamelled portraits of eminent women and one child of the French court and empire, each within mirror shaped gilt oval, with putti above, gilt names below and extensive delicate draped and floral surrounds. One plate with retailers mark: Wright Tyndale Van Roden / Philadelphia. / Made in France. to underside. A tour de force of Beaux Arts, Gilded Age porcelain to serve as a Grand Tour Souvenir.
All with spurious printed Sevres marks, CHATEAU DES TUILERIES, 1894, also with A L Limoges mark in green for Alfred Lanternier. Also, a knights helmet in gold above PARIS. Portraits identifed in puce enamel to u ndersides.
Approximate dimensions 9 1/4 Diameter..
Condition: Overall condition is very good, with minor wear to name plates under portraits, and very minor abrasions, wear and scratching.
Note: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has a copy of the Philadelphia retailers catalogue, 57.534.2.