6th Mar, 2025 10:00

Fine & Decorative Arts

 
Lot 541
 

541

Jean-Charles Develly for Sevres, a painted porcelain plate from the Service de la Chevalerie, 1835, titled Beaumanoir, depicting the historical French knight Jean de Beaumanoir, hero of the Combat of the Thirty at Ploemerl, 1350, represented in full armour, the army behind, within a gilt Gothic arcade and foliate border, on blue ground, the rim with tooled gallery of alternating fleur de lys emblazoned pennons on lances and shields inscribed variously in gilt with the chivalric attributes of Gloire, Generosité, Valeur, Constance, Fidelité, Loyauté, Vertu, Dieu, Le Roi, Les Dames, Honneur, Amour, the reverse inscribed with the image title, stamped, incised and painted marks, 24cm diameter

Note: an example of a similar plate from the same service is in the collection of the British Museum, number 2007,8036.1

Ploemerl,

Sold for £3,000


 

Jean-Charles Develly for Sevres, a painted porcelain plate from the Service de la Chevalerie, 1835, titled Beaumanoir, depicting the historical French knight Jean de Beaumanoir, hero of the Combat of the Thirty at Ploemerl, 1350, represented in full armour, the army behind, within a gilt Gothic arcade and foliate border, on blue ground, the rim with tooled gallery of alternating fleur de lys emblazoned pennons on lances and shields inscribed variously in gilt with the chivalric attributes of Gloire, Generosité, Valeur, Constance, Fidelité, Loyauté, Vertu, Dieu, Le Roi, Les Dames, Honneur, Amour, the reverse inscribed with the image title, stamped, incised and painted marks, 24cm diameter

Note: an example of a similar plate from the same service is in the collection of the British Museum, number 2007,8036.1

Auction: Fine & Decorative Arts, 6th Mar, 2025

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