Lot 587
587
FOUR PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE AND GOLD GROUND DESSERT-PLATES
PROPERTY FROM A NORTH YORKSHIRE COLLECTION
FOUR PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE AND GOLD GROUND DESSERT-PLATES

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IRON RED AND GILT FACTORY MARKS

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FOUR PARIS (NAST) PORCELAIN BLUE AND GOLD GROUND DESSERT-PLATES
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, IRON RED AND GILT FACTORY MARKS
Each with a central gilt T. for 'Talleyrand' within a sunburst issuing anthemion, the matte blue-ground border with a chased gilt berried laurel band
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Collection of the Duc de Talleyrand-Périgord, at the Château de Valençay, thence by descent.
Private UK collection.

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Lot Essay

A number of plates from this service were in the travelling exhibition, Napoléon, An Intimate Portrait; see the exhibition catalogue, Pierre-Jean Chalençon, Brett Topping and Russell Hull Etling, Coral Gables, 2005, p. 56, for an illustration of the plates, noting their historical provenance to the Talleyrand family and the Château de Valençay.
Six dessert-plates from this service were sold; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2011, lot 123.

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