A rare Royal Sèvres soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, manufactured in 1777 and decorated by the distinguished flower painter Ambroise Michel. His personal painter''s mark, a calligraphic lowercase ''m'', is officially recorded in the Registry of Painters and Decorators of the Royal Sèvres Manufactory, allowing the decoration to be securely attributed to one of Sèvres'' finest artists.Michel was entrusted with decorating the manufactory''s most prestigious royal and diplomatic services. Examples of these celebrated Sèvres plates are today preserved in the collections of the Louvre Museum, France''s principal national museum, the Palace of Versailles and other leading museums. As an authentic product of the Royal Sèvres Manufactory, this plate represents a genuine museum-quality example of eighteenth-century French porcelain.The authentic underglaze cobalt-blue crossed ''LL''s, accompanied on the left by the year letter ''z'', date the plate to 1777. The elegant Assiette à palme...