Set of six parcel gilt Sèvres style porcelain plates
Style of Sèvres (French, founded 1738)
£12,000
This set of six beautiful Sèvres style plates features luxurious cobalt blue porcelain ground, delicate gilding, and painted scenes of 18th Century equestrian hunting.
This set of six plates is crafted and decorated in the manner of Sèvres. Each plate features a dark cobalt blue ground with a parcel gilt rim patterned with stylised arabesque motifs. The central circular panels of the plates are painted with equestrian scenes of the hunt executed in a Rococo style and with typically Rococo shades of pastel blue, pink, and green. The painted scene on each plate is signed ‘Wouvemans’ and the reverse of each plate is painted with the mark of Sèvres.
