Extremely Rare 1780s LIMOGES/SEVRES Porcelain Portrait of Émilie du Châtelet

This sale is for an extremely rare, hand Painted portrait on porcelain of the French Mathematician and Physicist ,Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet   Hand painted in Sevres and from the factory of The Grellet Bros, Massie and Fourneira (see below) during the reign of Louis XV
The Plaque was hand painted in Sevres as was all of the Grellet Bros Limoges Porcelain. Their “Curly C mark is to the rear.
There are very few portraits existing in the public domain of , Émilie du Châtelet. This example is on a 18 x 12.5cm plaque. The paint gilding has faded in a couple of parts and there are a few tiny scratches on the surface. The Gilded frame is loose and requires a new backing to fix to it. The mark on the rear is in the Ludwig Dankert Porcelain book on p313.

Insurance. Insurance will only be to a maximum of £2500 the remainder will have to be on the Buyers own Insurance.

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her most celebrated achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica. The translation, published posthumously in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation. Her commentary includes a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postulate of an additional conservation law for total energy, of which kinetic energy of motion is one element.
Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman ^]She was also romantically linked with two other influential philosophers of the period, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759) and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)

The Grellet Bros., together with Maisie and Fourneira a Porcelain Factory here under the protectorate of the Comte de Artois. The concern became the property of the Crown in 1784. From 1788 to 1793 the Director was Alluaud. This Factory was in constant economic difficulties and finaly closed in 1796. White Porcelain made by the Grellet Co. was painted in Sevres.
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