A Sèvres bleu mosaïque composite part dessert service, various dates, predominantly 1757-9 and 1762

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The Wittlesbach pattern is an unofficial name derived from the resemblance between the blue and white border and the coat of arms of the Wittlesbach family and a service with this border given by Louis XV to Carl Theodore, Elector of the Palatine in 1760. However, the pattern is closely associated with Madame de Pompadour and her apartments at the Petit Château de Choisy. These origins are discussed by Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, Vol. 1, p. 558. The painted pattern highlighted the moulded border used on two compotiers, itself derived from the alt Brandenstein pattern borders on contemporary Meissen porcelain. Mme de Pompadour ordered two sets of plates in 1758 and 1762 described in her inventory as “mosaïques bleu, dessin de Choisy le Roy”. The author also illustrates a plate, probably from the 1758 order (date letter E) of eighteen plates in the collection at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire (Savill, ibid., Vol. 2, Fig. 15.47).