Assiette plate or assiette unie (part of a dinner and dessert service), Sèvres porcelain factory (porcelain manufacturer), 1797. Soft-paste porcelain, green ground and gilded decoration. Dimensions: .1–.43 2.3 to 3.1 x 23.5 to 24.5 cm. RCIN 73220. Royal Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Soft-paste Sèvres porcelain dessert plates. Green ground and gilded decoration with a bunch of polychrome flowers tied with coloured ribbons in the centre. Concave border and gently scalloped in outline (six large scallops alternating with six smaller ones).

Provenance: Recorded, in part only, in 1826 in the Confectionary, Carlton House. The pieces are entered under two numbers so it may be expected that a division would be made by classifying the pieces making up the dinner service separately from those forming the dessert service, particularly as the heading for the first entry reads, ‘A Dessert Service …’. However, such a division was evidently not followed.