ID 1027691
Lot 398 | A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND BOTTLE COOLERS (SEAUX A BOUTEILLE)
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
CIRCA 1763, BLUE INTERLACED L’S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER’S MARKS FOR J.-B. NOUALHIER
Each painted with groups of flowers and fruits, framed by gilt trailing flowers and ribbon-tied palms, gilt garlands of flowers beneath the handles, the top rims with gilt dots, the top rims of the interiors with gilt scrolls and two entwined branches
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) wide
Provenance
Possibly from the green-ground service acquired on 1 May 1763 by Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1720-1792), Secrétaire d’état and Contrôleur général des finances.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4306 1-2).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 1017).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, vol. II, no. 63-3, pp. 357-359.
| Manufactur: | Sèvres Porcelain Factory |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Ice cooler |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Manufactur: | Sèvres Porcelain Factory |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Ice cooler |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Address of auction |
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