Plate (assiette octogone or assiette platte) from the "Service Arabesque"
Manufactory Sèvres Manufactory French
Designer Louis Le Masson French
Decorator Jean Armand Fallot French
This plate is from a remarkable service that reflected the most up-to-date Neoclassicism of the late eighteenth century. The shapes and the decoration were commissioned from the architect Louis le Masson who was instructed that the service should represent "the most rigorous antique taste." The need for new forms and decorative schemes for the service delayed its production, and it remained incomplete at the outbreak of the Revolution. Less than twenty pieces from the service Arabesque are known today.
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