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18th CENTURY SÈVRES TENDER PORCELAIN DISH, DATED 1787 From the service delivered to Ambassador William Eden for John FitzGibbon Polychrome decoration in the centre of a bouquet of roses in a medallion with a carmine background surrounded by florets, the wing decorated with roses, barbs and florets between two braids with a carmine background and a pink and gold post frieze Marked : LL interlaced, letter-date KK for 1787, painter's mark Bouillat, gilder's mark Chauvaux l'ainé D. 24 cm (9 ½ in.) Provenance : Service delivered on 4 October 1787 to William Eden on behalf of John FitzGibbon. A soft-paste Sevres porcelain plate, 18th century, dated 1787 This plate was part of a service delivered to William Eden, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain to France (from 4 April 1786 to March 1788), in Paris in 1787 following the negotiation of the Anglo-French Treaty of Navigation and Commerce of 26 September 1786. William Eden, acting as intermediary, purchased this service on behalf of John FitzGibbon, of County Cork (Ireland), Attorney General of Ireland (1783-1789), 1ᵉʳ Earl of Clare (peerage of Ireland) from 1795. The service is mentioned in the sales register as "frize Riche N° 62" referring to design no. 62 in the Album des Dessins d'Assiettes de la manufacture, with no. 62 marked with the price of 42 livres and annotated, perhaps in a later hand, "M. Eden" (Arch Sèvres, Vy10, f° 180). See David Peters, op. cit, no. 87-10, pp. 841-842 and Aileen Dawson, "The Eden service, another diplomatic gift", Apollo, vol. CXI, 1980, pp. 296-297, fig. 14.
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About the sale Furniture and Works of Art - Evening Sale (Lot 1-170)
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