SERVICE DES PETITES VUES DE FRANCE. Manufacture royale et impériale, Sèvres, 1858. Set of 12 hard-paste porcelain dinner plates with a central decoration of 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 wide gold frieze decorated with small rosettes topped with palmettes on an agate blue background. Each plate bears the identification of the place represented in gold letters: Le pont du Hameau (Petit Trianon); Ermitage de St-Bond, near Sens; Eaux-Bonnes (Basses-Pyrénées); À l'île Barbe, near Lyon; Une porte d'entrée à Bordeaux; Tour de Marlborough (Petit Trianon); Saint-Ouen church in Rouen; Former gateway to the Palais de Justice in Rouen; Château-Gaillard (Eure); A view of Moret (Seine-et-Marne); Buffon's tower in Montbard (Côte-d'Or); Montbard church (Côte-d'Or). Very slight age wear, but overall very good condition. Green mark: SV, LP under royal crown (18)45, (18)46, (18)54, (18)55. Gold mark: Sèvres, LP under royal crown, 1848. Red mark: decorated in Sèvres, N under imperial crown (18)58. Diameter: 24 cm.