CIRCA 1757-1759, BLUE INTERLACED L’S MARKS, TWO WITH FLOWER PAINTER’S MARKS FOR J. FONTAINE, THE BIRDS ATTRIBUTED TO L.-D. ARMAND L’AINE

The combination of birds and floral motifs with a green ground color was a popular decorative scheme among the nobility in the late 1750s. Known Sèvres services that incorporated this trio of design elements include: a service given by King Louis XV to King Frederick V Denmark (see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Little Berkhamsted, Vol. II, no. 57-2, pp. 301-305); a group of 23 plates noted in a posthumous inventory of Madame de Pompadour (see Jean-Cordey, Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour, 1939, p. 63, no. 705 and Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres porcelain, 2021, Norwich, vol. II, p. 661 and fig.15.5); and a service sold on 16 May 1759 to César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul, later duc de Choiseul-Praslin (see Peters, op. cit. no. 59-1, pp. 317-318.)