Pair Equestrian Serving Plates / Serving Dishes

Pair of floral and gilt painted sweetmeat dishes. Pair of shell form sweetmeat dishes with gilding to handle and overall cornsilk field with hand pain...

Paris porcelain gilt banded hunting service. Set of sixteen complementary serving dishes with hunt paintings attributed to Jacques Francois Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, a painter for Serves porcelain as well as Royal Russian Porcelain manufactory; his work found at The Met, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Marseille. Scenes include red and blue coated hunters riding to the hounds, running stag, wild boars, foxes and groupings of hounds. Each scene bordered in thick gilt band on white ground with filigree border and further gilt banding. Sweet meat dishes...

These platters have scalloped sides and square ends. The colors remain quite strong and are very pleasing to the eye.

Pair of Chinese plates with floral motifs from the Compagnie des Indes dating from the 18th century. They are decorated with a bouquet of flowers a...