A Sèvres Porcelain Plate from the 'Service de Dessert Marly Rouge', circa 1808

A Sèvres Porcelain Plate from the 'Service de Dessert Marly Rouge', circa 1808

painted at the centre with a butterfly reserved by a pale-blue ground within a colourful floral wreath bound with gilt ribbons against a gilt band, the gilt-edged, red-ground rim with a border of formal gilt foliage within two gilt lines, stenciled M.Imp.^le/ de Sevres/8 mark in iron-red, incised L, and numeral 7(?)

diameter 9 3/8 in.

23.8 cm