Sèvres Porcelain
A Sèvres Plate from the Vandernyver Service, 1792
H2.5 Dia.24cm
H.1 Dia.9 1/2in
H.1 Dia.9 1/2in
10479
GBP £ 2,200.00
Literature
This soft-paste Sèvres porcelain plate (assiette) has interlaced Ls with date-letter pp for 1792, painter's mark Sc for Sophie Binet, née Chanou (active 1779-98).
It comes from a Sèvres dinner service sold to the Dutch banker Jean-Baptiste Vandernyver on 29th November 1792. The service originally contained 92 plates and much of it was sold at Christie's in London in 1897. There are pieces from this service in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.