A Sèvres portrait plate circa 1841 decorated with a portait of Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) en profil in a cameo trompe l'oeil on a red ground with his name in white script within an elaborate formal gilt border, the rim with trailing floral branches against a pale-blue ground, the reverse with a title in black Laplace (Pierre Simon Marquis de) Géomêtre né à Beaumont-en-Auge, 1749 (d'ap: la méd: de Caunois). printed Sèvres mark in blue, dated 1841, the cameo portrait initialled 'M', the reverse with 'M' or 'W' in gold, incised D 20-10 24cm., 9½in.
A Sèvres portrait plate circa 1841 decorated with a portait of Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) en profil in a cameo trompe l'oeil on a red ground with his name in white script within an elaborate formal gilt border, the rim with trailing floral branches against a pale-blue ground, the reverse with a title in black Laplace (Pierre Simon Marquis de) Géomêtre né à Beaumont-en-Auge, 1749 (d'ap: la méd: de Caunois). printed Sèvres mark in blue, dated 1841, the cameo portrait initialled 'M', the reverse with 'M' or 'W' in gold, incised D 20-10 24cm., 9½in.
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