Plate from the table service à vues pittoresques de l'Europe Porcelain, cobalt blue underglazed and coloured glaze decor, gilding and platinum painting. Mirror-filling, very finely painted view of Klosterneuburg, on the flag below signifies "PARTY DE LA VILLE ET COuvENT DE KLOSTER-NEUBOURG." In the foreground a peasant festival with dancers. Around the flag an etched leaf frieze. On the floor in black denotes "AUTRICHE." Blue stamped double-C with 26, green painting mark "19 mai 26 G.", golden AB, engraved "f 10 26". D 23.7 cm. Sèvres, 1826. The service "à vues pittoresques de l-Europe" was commissioned in 1826. The image program is similar to that of the service "à vues diverses", which was ordered by Napoleon in 1812, but was produced until 1817. Literature: Cf. Préaud (Hg), The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800 – 1847, New Haven-London 1997, Fig. 28a.