Manufacture Royale De Vincennes-sèvres, Porcelain Plate With Blue Ground And Bird Decoration

Royal Manufactory of Vincennes-Sèvres.
Soft-paste porcelain plate with a blue “œil-de-perdrix” (partridge-eye) ground heightened in gold, the well decorated with a polychrome scene depicting two birds (“Petite perruche a gorge jaune d'Amerique” and “Coucou des Indes”) in a wooded landscape.
Sèvres. 18th century.
D_25 cm
Wear to the gilding, slight signs of use.

In the 18th century, the Royal Sèvres Manufactory was distinguished by the perfection of its soft-paste porcelain, the richness of its colored grounds, and the finesse of its ornithological decorations, often inspired by the plates in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle.

This piece belongs to the brilliant production of colored-ground services from the Sèvres Manufactory, highly prized by the court and high aristocracy for the refinement of their exotic bird motifs, meticulously inscribed on the reverse.