Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Dinner Plate

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Dinner Plate
  • from the "Empress Catherine" Service
Date1778
PlaceFrance
MediumSoft-paste porcelain
Dimensions1 1/8 × 10 5/16 in. diameter (2.9 × 26.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, museum purchase funded by the Rienzi Society
Object number2002.39
Current Location
Rienzi
Drawing Room
On view

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Department
Rienzi
Object Type
ProvenanceCatherine II of Russia, Winter Palace, 1778; Ferdinando Civilotti, 1837; [Storr and Mortimer, London]; Viscount Lowther, later the 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, c. 1840; William J. Goode Collection; [Christie’s, London, 17 June 1895, one of lots 284-6]; Wenz Collection, Lille, 1994–95; private collection, Clermont-Ferrand, France; [Adrian Sassoon, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked with the interlaced "L's", date-letter "aa" for 1778.

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