Four similar Louis XV and Louis XVI platters in sizes, Paris and Blois, 1729, 1743-44, 1775

all shaped oval with lobed ends, comprising:
a small platter with later arms under coronet, Léonard Mercier, Paris, 1729
a medium platter with accollé arms under coronet, Claude Laurent, Paris, 1744
a large platter with laurel-garlanded arms under coronet, maker's mark CG, Paris, 1743
and a plain large platter, Jacques Hanappier, Blois, 1775-77

The later arms on the Mercier platter are those of du Breil, Seigneur de Rays, of Normandy.

1729 and 1744 platters with old knife marks, as noted re arms on first 1743 platter with some salt stains, traces of other arms on one side Blois platter surface buffed, engraving removed Otherwise good, work well as a nesting set
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The pair to the Claude Laurent platter is in the Wentworth Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, see Dennis No. 210, p. 151.