https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/24290/fullSet of Four Plates from a Dessert or Dinner Service1796-1799Sèvres Porcelain ManufactoryPierre-Jean-Baptiste VandéDenis LevéJean ChavauxEdmé-François BouillatÉtienne-Henry Le GuayOverall: 24 cm (9 7/16 in.)Soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels, gildingGift of Stephen Brown in honour of Meredith ChiltonG19.10.6.1-40The four plates with scalloped outlines come from a service made at Sèvres from 1796 to 1799. Each piece features bunches of flowers tied with differently coloured ribbons, framed by green-ground rims with a decorative frieze in tooled and burnished gold. A band in burnished gold run around the rim of all the pieces. Suspension holes are pierced in the plates (as is the case with other plates of the service).
The plates belong to a green ground dessert and dinner service of which 162 pieces are preserved in the Royal Collections, London. The service was partly recorded in 1826 in the Confectionary, Cartlon House. The exact date of acquisition of the service by George IV is unknown. Of significant provenance, the four plates will therefore enhance our currently limited holdings of Sèvres by documenting the production of green grounds as well as production of the late eighteenth century under the French Republic.
18th Century European PorcelainFrench PorcelainVincennes/Sevres[]European CeramicsFrench Porcelain1823498725FrenchG19.10.6.1 - Sevres /RF / L. / IN (painted by Denis Levé (active 1754-1805); gilded by Jean Chavaux le jeune (active 1764-1800)
G19.10.6.2 & G19.10.6.3 - Sevre / M / Y..D. (?) (painted by Jean-Jacques Pierre (active 1763-1800); gilded by Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Vandé (active 1775-1824)
G19.10.6.4 - RF / Sevres / y / L.G. / GI (painted by Edmé-François Bouillat (active 1779-98); gilded by Étienne-Henry Le Guay père (active 1742-97))