A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES ASSOCIATED WITH MARIE JOSEPHINE OF SAVOYDATE LETTERS FOR 1783from a 'petit service', each painted with panels of flowers, blue interlaced 'L's ' marks, painter's marks for Bulidon and Claude-Joseph Cardin and date letters ff for 1783each 24cm diameter Provenance: Property from the estate of the late Joe Constantine. Note: See David Peter, Sevres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, where this petit service is listed as 83/12, Service petites fleurs et cartels. It appeared in the Versailles credit sale of 1783 (financial records for 1784) and was purchased by Marie Joséphine of Savoy, the wife of the king's younger brother the Comte de Provence and future Louis XVIII.each with slight rubbing to gilt and surface scratches commensurate with age