Sèvres
Sèvres
Porcelain plate with a cameo-style decoration featuring a portrait of Fénelon in profile on a brown background, surrounded by the inscription “F. DE SALOGNAC DE LA MOTTE FENELON”; the rim has a lapis blue background adorned with gold fleurons.
Inscribed in black on the reverse: Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Motte), born at the Château de Fénelon in Quercy in 1651.
Marked: 23. 8. 29 in green, Sèvres 31, and a star within a circle.
Louis-Philippe period, 1831.
Diameter: 24 cm
This plate comes from a service whose decoration is described as “lapis blue ground with a gold and platinum frieze, portraits of famous French figures painted in the cameo style ,” entered the manufactory’s sales warehouse on November 5, 1831, and delivered to Count de la Ferronnaye on December 15, 1831, following new authorization from the provisional administrator [of the former Crown endowment]. The service consisted of 160 pieces, including 96 plates (Sèvres Archives, Vbb8 fol. f° 32).
Pierre-Louis-Auguste Ferron, Count de La Ferronnays (1777–1842), an émigré and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Berry, served during the Restoration as a Peer of France, ambassador to Denmark and then to Russia, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1828–1829). Appointed ambassador to the Holy See, he refused to swear allegiance to Louis-Philippe in 1830. Commissioned under Charles X, this gift was not presented to him until after the fall of the elder branch of the royal family.
Expert: Mr. Cyrille Froissart
Sèvres
Porcelain plate with a cameo-style decoration featuring a portrait of Fénelon in profile on a brown background, surrounded by the inscription “F. DE SALOGNAC DE LA MOTTE FENELON”; the rim has a lapis blue background adorned with gold fleurons.
Inscribed in black on the reverse: Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Motte), born at the Château de Fénelon in Quercy in 1651.
Marked: 23. 8. 29 in green, Sèvres 31, and a star within a circle.
Louis-Philippe period, 1831.
Diameter: 24 cm
This plate comes from a service whose decoration is described as “lapis blue ground with a gold and platinum frieze, portraits of famous French figures painted in the cameo style ,” entered the manufactory’s sales warehouse on November 5, 1831, and delivered to Count de la Ferronnaye on December 15, 1831, following new authorization from the provisional administrator [of the former Crown endowment]. The service consisted of 160 pieces, including 96 plates (Sèvres Archives, Vbb8 fol. f° 32).
Pierre-Louis-Auguste Ferron, Count de La Ferronnays (1777–1842), an émigré and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Berry, served during the Restoration as a Peer of France, ambassador to Denmark and then to Russia, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1828–1829). Appointed ambassador to the Holy See, he refused to swear allegiance to Louis-Philippe in 1830. Commissioned under Charles X, this gift was not presented to him until after the fall of the elder branch of the royal family.
Expert: Mr. Cyrille Froissart
