CIRCA 1758, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E, PAINTER'S MARK FOR H.-J. MONGENOT

The present plate is from a large service 'à rubans verts', given by King Louis XV of France to Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria in 1758. The entire service was made at a cost of 24,768 livres and the majority of the service is still in the Imperial Hofburg Palace, Vienna. For a full discussion of this service, see D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, vol. II, pp. 307-308. Other examples outside of the Hofburg Palace can be found at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen (S. Eriksen and G. de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 308, ill. 121); at the Royal Palace, Stockholm; at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and at the Louvre and Decorative Arts Museums, Paris.

Henry-Joseph Mongenot is recorded as a painter of flowers at the Vincennes and Sèvres manufactory from 1754 to 1764.