Lot Details & Additional Photographs
France, 19th century, hand-painted and gilt porcelain, each featuring a French leading lady with rims decorated in gilt Rococo style motifs on a celestial blue ground, including a pair with scalloped rims and signed "Morin" to the lower left, both with Chateau des Tuileries red mark, green S.37 date mark, and 1844 blue Sevres mark to the undersides (9 5/8 in.); a third with lobed rim featuring musical instrument vignettes, signed "G. Poitevin" to the obverse, with similar marks to the first pair; a second pair with round rim, undersides with 1846 Sevres blue mark, one additionally signed in black script "Lamballe, / Dec:127 / Depose," and the second signed "Wagner" beneath the portrait and "Montespan / Dec: 132 / Depose" in black script to reverse (9 1/2 in.); the sixth signed to lower right, decorated in floral cartouches and with Sevres style interlaced L's mark to the underside (9 in.).
From the Collection of the late John Ferguson, Chesterfield, Virginia Occasional rubbing to gilt; some minor marks to a few plates; overall good condition.
