Tray, from a Breakfast Service (Plateau; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine), Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 to the present, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Oval tray with raised and everted rim. Decorated with outer border of interlaced triangular geometric motifs in lapis blue against brown background, surrounded by thin gold rims; then a border of tooled gilding with 16 roundels painted in polychrome of exotic birds, alternating with the smaller roundels with butterflies. Around central oval a wide band of trompe-l'oeil coffering.

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