SAMPLE DISH IN SÈVRES TENDER PORCELAIN FROM THE 18th CENTURY, DATED 1783 Polychrome decoration in the centre of a bouquet of flowers surrounded by a garland of gold fleurons, the side decorated with garlands of flowers around a rosette with a green and gold background in arcades on a green background decorated with gold fleurons and flowers Marked : LL interlaced, letter-date FF for 1783, mark of the painter Denis Levé, and mark of the gilders Vincent and Henri Prévost D. 23.5 cm (9 ¼ in.) Provenance: Collection Edmond Toutain ; Collection Edouard Chappey, second sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Me Paul Chevallier, 29 April-2 May 1907, lot 567 (bought 700 francs by Mannheim); Former Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection, Christie's sale, Paris, 5-6 December 2001, lot 129. A soft-paste Sevres porcelain sample plate, 18th century, dated 1783 , the painting by Denis Leve, the gilding by Vincent et Henri Prevost This plate was reproduced in the Chappey collection by Frédéric Masson, "La porcelaine de Sèvres, Collection Chappey", Les Arts, February 1905, no. 38, p. 12.