A set of six Sèvres yellow-ground plates, the porcelain mid eighteenth century, the decoration perhaps first half nineteenth century

well painted in sepia and green with a neo-classical radiating pattern of lyres on a tented purple ground, strung with gilt lines on which sit exotic moths and spreading palm fronds, the yellow border with vine and fruit symbols and formal wreaths, spurious interlaced L marks,  date codes cc and painter's mark G

one with small chip to rim, some overall wear to gilding and enamel.
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