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Commemorative Plate

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1850-1899

GUSN

GUSN-63934

Description

White porcelain body. Scalloped and lobed edge. Wide rim with aqua border with shaped gilt scrolling and floral vines. Cavetto border corresponds. Interior of well with bust length portrait of King Louis XIV of France.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
commemoratives
gilding
porcelain
Commemorative
Plate, Commemorative
Porcelain
Gilded
Plate, Commemorative

Inscription

Chateau de Tuileries (ss intertwined; mark 4 is a fragment of the vender label)
S .37
Sevres/1844/crown/ss
Garde meuble des chams-elysses

Associated Person

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Sevres (Maker)
Morion (Artist)
Chateau Des Tuileries (Maker)

Location of Origin

Sevres, France; France; Paris, France

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.719

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