SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE. Manufacture royale et impériale, Sèvres, 1858. A fine set of 12 hard porcelain dinner plates, centrally decorated with a hand-painted polychrome medallion depicting a different view of France on each plate, surrounded by a gold frieze. The main "wing" border features a large gold frieze decorated with small rosettes topped with palmettes on an agate blue background. Each plate bears the name of the place represented in gold letters: Au Tréport (Seine-Inférieure); À Etretat (Seine-Inférieure); La ferme aux environs d'Yvetot (Seine-Inférieure); Aux environs d'Yvetot (Seine- Inférieure); Harfleur (Seine-Inférieure); Chevet de l'église Saint-Pierre à Caen; Environs de Rouen; tour de Lillebonne (Seine-Inférieure); Château et la ville de Dieppe (Seine-Inférieure); À Eu (Seine-Inférieure); Au Bois Guillaume, près de Rouen; Basse vieille tour à Rouen. Very slight age wear, one plate restored, but overall very good condition. Green mark: SV, LP under royal crown (18)45, (18)55. Gold mark: Sèvres, LP under royal crown, 1846, 1848. Red mark: decorated in Sèvres, N under imperial crown (18)58. Diameter: 24 cm.