Large Porcelain Tray With Silver Mount, In The Manner Of Sèvres, 19th Century

Large Oval Serving Tray in Polychrome Porcelain with Celeste Blue Ground, the Center Painted with a Rich Naturalistic Flower Bouquet in an Ochre Reserve, Heightened with an Important Openwork Silver Mount with Interlaced Circle Motif and Polylobed Foliate Border with Foliate Handles
Signature / mark on the reverse. Napoleon III style / 19th century (in the manner of Sèvres or Paris Porcelain).
Very good overall state of preservation.

Inspired by the tea trays and cabarets from the Louis XV and Second Empire periods, this presentation piece is distinguished by the brilliance of its tinted blue ground, the finesse of its hand-painted floral decoration, and the elegance of its silver filigree mount. The assembly of a painted porcelain piece with a goldsmith's armature illustrates the 19th century's taste for luxury decorative objects destined for reception salons.

This large tray in flower-painted porcelain with silver mount testifies to the skill of 19th-century porcelain decorators and silversmiths, uniting the freshness of its floral decoration with the refinement of its metalwork.