A LARGE ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN ‘BLEU AGATE’ GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE - photo 1
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A LARGE ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN ‘BLEU AGATE’ GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE

Lot 712
25.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 60 480
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1195453
Lot 712 | A LARGE ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN ‘BLEU AGATE’ GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
The following pieces from a service made for King Louis-Philippe for use at Château de Saint-Cloud and Château de Compiègne in 1830s and 1840s, with gilt palmettes at the rims:
Two flaring reticulated fruit baskets
Two graduated compotes on short feet
Four low footed dishes
Fifty-eight dinner plates
Twelve dinner plates with a differing central gilt medallion, possibly from the same service
Five fluted ice-cream plates (patelles à glace cannelées)
An ecuelle, cover, and stand (ècuelle Boizot de 1818 anses bottes)
Two graduated bowls on low feet
Eight navette-form dishes (bateaux forme navette)
An oval serving dish
Three large water jugs and covers (pot à dècoction)
An ewer
Two graduated teapots and covers
A sugar-bowl and cover with lion mask handles (pot à sucre Pestum)
Four sugar-bowls and covers with loop handles
A small sugar-bowl and cover with loop handles
Two large milk jugs (pot à lait Pestum)
A smaller cream-jug
Eight breakfast cups and saucers (tasses à thé Coupe)
A small salt in the form of a saucepan

The remainder similarly decorated, most with a wide band of gilt palmettes at the rim that match the above but later in date, comprising:
An ecuelle, cover, and stand (ècuelle Boizot de 1818 anses bottes)
Two graduated bowls on higher feet
Three compotes on high feet
Fifteen dinner plates
A smaller jug and cover
A large milk-jug (pot à lait Pestum)
Two smaller cream-jugs
Ten coffee-cups (tasses forme Litron) with eleven matching Sèvres style saucers
Two teacups and saucers (tasses à thé Coupe)


Together with the following similar ‘bleu agate’ pieces:

An earlier Sèvres footed bowl with gilt bellflowers at the rim
A modern Sèvres monogramed plate

A modern Sèvres with matching gilt palmettes at the rim and gilt flower sprigs to the center, comprising:
Twelve dinner plates
Two smaller dinner plates
Twelve dessert plates

A Sèvres style service in a matching pattern but with spurious date marks for 1846, comprising:
Eighteen soup plates
Two smaller dinner plates
Ten demitasse cups and eleven saucers
113/4 in. (29.8 cm.) long, the oval serving dish; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, the ewer
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