Vincennes Manufacture De Seguin - Oval Dish Decorated With Flower Throws - Eighteenth Century

VINCENNES. Hard porcelain oval dish; polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers and pink nets. Marked: label in blue, Séguin factory, sponsored by the Duke of Chartres, future Philippe-Egalité. Eighteenth century. D. 33 cm. Wear in the center Since 1845 the label mark has been a subject of controversy for porcelain specialists. Cyrille Froissart, published an article in 1999 in the Revue de la Société des Amis du Musée National de la Céramique (n°8) which reviews the progress of research on the label. The label designates a heraldic element. This is a break that can be found in particular on the coat of arms of the Orléans family, which bears arms: "azure with three golden fleur-de-lys, with a silver label in chief" . According to the tradition established in the 19th century, two factories would have used the mark with the full label: the Séguin factory in Vincennes between 1777 and 1788 and the Royal porcelain factory in Orléans before 1782. However, as Cyrille Froissart points out, "barring fraud , there is no example in the history of two factories having used the same mark” and only the Manufacture Séguin had filed the mark on the label.