Sèvres Porcelain: A Plate Fit for an Emperor
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In October 1807, Napoleon ordered what would become known as the "Emperor’s private service” from the Sèvres factory. Of the more than 230 pieces, this plate featuring one of the Louvre’s rooms will be auctioned soon. Manufacture impériale de Sèvres, 1808, hard porcelain dish, the rim decorated with a frieze of swords linked by a garland of laurel leaves and enriched by stars, the center adorned with a view painted by Jean-Claude Rumeau of Empress Josephine visiting the Victory Room at the Napoleon Museum, the bottom incised and painted in black with the "LL" monogram of Louis XVIII, diam. 23.5cm/9.25
