A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU GROUND ICE PAILS (GLACIERES A CHIMERES) FROM THE `SERVICE A VUES DIVERSES` COMMISSIONED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND DELIVERED TO LOUIS XVIII
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
80000USD $ 80 000
| Auctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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ID 819787
Lot 31 | A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU GROUND ICE PAILS (GLACIERES A CHIMERES) FROM THE 'SERVICE A VUES DIVERSES' COMMISSIONED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND DELIVERED TO LOUIS XVIII
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
1814-1816, IRON-RED PRINTED IMPERIAL EAGLE DECORATING MARKS, DATE NUMERALS 12 OR 13, ILLEGIBLE GREEN KILN NUMBERS, SIGNED (JEAN-FRANCOIS) ROBERT, THE SILVER WITH MAKER'S AND PARIS GUARANTEE MARKS
Each with two silver-gilt handles terminating in a female mask, the rim with a band of quatrefoil flower-heads above a band alternating anthemia and masks, finely painted with topographical scenes, either the 'Palais de St. Cloud' to one side and 'Palais de Schönbrunn' to the other or the 'Palais de Windsor' and the 'Palais de Sarskocello', the sides gilt with anthemia and scrollwork centering a flower-head medallion, the lower body with berried stiff-leaf tips, raised on four winged lion-mask and paw feet, square base
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high, the porcelain
Provenance
Ordered by Napoleon I during his reign, but purchased by King Louis XVIII on 15 October 1815.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1984, lot 80.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Manufacture de Sèvres, Travaux de Peintre et Doreur, 1814, p. 15.
| Manufactur: | Sèvres Porcelain Factory |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Gilding, Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Manufactur: | Sèvres Porcelain Factory |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Gilding, Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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