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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Service des Princes

Soup Plate
1839 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Soup plate of porcelain. White ground decorated with gold fillet, ivy frieze and LP in monogram surrounded by two branches of foliage.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleService des Princes (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, enamelled and gilt
Brief description
Soup plate, enamelled and gilt porcelain, French: Sèvres porcelain, 1839. Service des Princes, various residences (Maison du Roi), gilded by Jean-Louis Moyez.
Physical description
Soup plate of porcelain. White ground decorated with gold fillet, ivy frieze and LP in monogram surrounded by two branches of foliage.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.7cm
  • Base diameter: 13.8cm
  • Height: 4.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Z 39 5' (Incised)
  • 'C' (Incised (in glaze))
  • Crowned 'LP Sèvres 1839' (In blue (overglaze))
  • 'Château de St. Cloud' (In red (overglaze))
  • 'M' (Gilder's mark in gold)
Credit line
Given by Eduardo Canel-Zanoni
Object history
Commissioned for use at Château de Saint Cloud.
Subjects depicted
Other number
EC 11 - Donor's reference
Collection
Accession number
C.14-2007

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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