A Sèvres topographical plate from the Service des Vues Suisses, 1811

Property of a Gentleman
A Sèvres topographical plate from the Service des Vues Suisses, 1811

transfer-printed in sepia and painted with a view titled VUE DU PONT AU DESSOUS DE PONT DU DIABLE/en montant de St Godard sur la Russ, (sic) inscribed to the reverse, within a well gilt with a band of anthemion, the border reserved with five portrait medallions, with classical male and female portraits, in profile within pink lustred ground roundels, divided by hexagrams reserved with trophies, iron-red stencilled M.Imple/de/Sevres/1811. mark, incised marks
23.3 cm. diameter

Condition Report:
Light surface scratches to gilding and slight stacking wear. A short firing crack to the rim at 12 o'clock.

Provenance:
Part of a dessert service purchased by Eugène de Beauharnais from the factory on December 30, 1811.