Limoges:LAFAYETTE LEGACY COLLECTION Restieau Plate #6

Lafayette Legacy Collection
First Edition- Made by Hand

American Revolution Collector Plate

by Andre Restieau

for Henri D?Arceau L & Fils, Limoges, France

Plate 6 – Lafayette with Washington and Rochambeau at the
Siege of Yorktown in October, 1781, forces the Englishmen Cornwallis into surrender (the Capitulation)

plate #928

?Issued at the behest of the L?Esprit de Lafayette Society, the Lafayette Legacy Plate Collection commemorates the establishment of the United State of America and the role played in that establishment by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who stood above all others of his time in the multi-national pursuit of political liberty and united the hearts of French and American citizens in its cause for the generations to come. The edition portrays six signal moments in Layafette?s American Revolutionary War career in original art by Andre Restieau, O.L.P., on D?Arceau-Limoges porcelain fired to the Grellet Standard of 1773. This collector?s plate commission is the first ever accepted by either the artist of the porcelain house and the first ever granted by the L?Esprit de Lafayette Society for a commemorative art-object of any kind. No comparable edition will be issued for the next one hundred years.?

Plate is 8-1/4? in diameter, backstamped and hand numbered. ?The allegoric border design or frieze by Restieau was taken from the carvings of the solid gold hilt of the Sword of Honor commissioned by the Congress of the United States and presented to General Lafayette in 1779.? Plate is in the original black styrofoam shipping box with the Limoges logo and trademark and booklet The story of plate VI. It is in very good condition and is without chips, cracks, crazing, pits, scratches, repairs or reproductions. Fiche de Controle Final documentation included.

Plate is for decorative purposes only and not to be used with food.