SÈVRES. A small palm plate in soft porcelain with polychrome decoration in the center of two birds on a terrace with shrubs, the wing decorated with bouquets of flowers in four reserves surrounded by rocaille scrolls and flowers in gold on a celestial blue ground (chips on the rim). Marked : LL interlaced, letter-date D for 1757. Bird painting by Louis-Denis Armand l'ainé. 18th century, 1757. Diameter: 25 cm Note: Three other plates with celestial blue backgrounds, decorated with a bouquet of flowers in the center and birds in four cartouches on a celestial blue background, are now listed. One, dated D for 1757, sold at Christie's in London on May 12, 2010, lot 233, and two others, undated, are in the English Royal Collection and reproduced in Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 2009, p. 627, no. 161. See also David Peters, Sevres Plates and Services of the 18th century, 2015, 56-1, p. 294. Appraisal by Cyrille FROISSART - 01 42 25 29 80 - froissart.expert@gmail.com