ID 1027674
Lot 395 | A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND OVAL TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS (TERRINES ET PLATEAUX)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
CIRCA 1762, BLUE INTERLACED L’S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER J TO ONE TUREEN AND TWO STANDS, PAINTERS' MARKS FOR C.-L. MÉREAUD AND J.-F. MICAUD
Painted with groups of flowers and fruits framed by gilt trailing flowers and ribbon-tied palms, the covers with artichoke and vegetable-form finials
17 ¾ in. and 17 7/8 in. (45.2 cm and 45.5 cm.) long, the stands
Provenance
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 4300).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point.
Returned to France in 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Edouard Garnier, La Porcelaine de Sèvres, 1889, pl. X (the dated tureen).
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: | Tureens |
| 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: | Tureens |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
| Address of auction |
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