Complete set of 6 plates plus rare museum issue plate, commemorating the Bicentennial of the U.S.  All plates are in mint condition.  Each is numbered and accompanied by the certificate of origin and protected by the original packaging.  

The edition portrays six signal moments in the Marquis de Lafayette'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.

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.

This collector's plate commission is the first ever accepted by either the artist or the porcelain house and the first ever granted by the L'Espirit de Lafayette Society for a commemorative art-object of any kind.