Plate (assiette octogone or assiette platte) from the 'Service Arabesque', ca. 1783–85, French, Sévres, Soft-paste porcelain, Diameter: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, 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
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Plate, assiette octogone, platte, Service Arabesque, ca, 1783–85, French, Sévres, Soft-paste porcelain, Diameter, 9 3/8, 23.8 cm, Ceramics-Porcelain, plate, remarkable service, reflected, up, date Neoclassicism, late eighteenth, century, shapes, decoration, commissioned, architect Louis, le, Masson, instructed, service should, represent, rigorous antique, taste
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