Old Paris Porcelain

Hand painted footed covered vegetable with pink roses and trimmed with blue.  We believe this is Old Paris decorated soft paste porcelain early to mid 19th century.

Unmarked except with an impressed 12.  Please note the wonderful hand painted flowers, precise blue painting, and detailed leaves and artichoke finial.

Quite large almost 12 inches across the scrolled handles by 10 inches front to back.

Condition:  Excellent.  It does have a single scratch inside as shown in the last picture in front of the light.
 

Deep cobalt blue (almost black) center bouquet of flowers.  8 7/8 inches.  Soft paste Paris France Porcelain.  Of course, all hand painted.

The only mark is "140" hand written on one plate in red.  1800s.  They are not exactly uniform to each.

Condition:  Excellent.  One has a foot chip as shown.
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One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Joan of Arc.

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.


 

One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Princess Margherita of Savoy 1851-1926 and Queen of Italy, wife of King Umberto I

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.


 

One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Princess Marie Louise 1749-1792

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.


 

One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Marie Sevigne 1626-1696, French aristocrat, an icon of French literature.

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.

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One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

King Louis XVI of France 1754-1793

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.
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One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Marie Therese Charlotte 1778-

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.
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One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Queen Marie De Medici 1578-1642, wife of Henry IV of France

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.
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One of a set of French nobility portrait plates hand painted from famous paintings and signed by the artist, or rather initialed L.V.  8 5/8 inches.  Gold over black enamel on very translucent porcelain.  Mark of Charles Pillivuyt & Co of Paris, France sometime shortly after 1878.  Each has the subject's name written in gold.

Juliette Recamier 1777-1849 French society, lounge sofa named for her, the recamier.

Condition:  Excellent condition with very little gold loss.

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