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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE

Lot 406
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027806
Lot 406 | A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE

CIRCA 1776-1777, MOST WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS Y AND Z, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ MARKS

Painted with groups of fruits and flowers at the centers and within three reserves at the borders, each reserve framed by two gilt ribbon-tied palms at its top and two gilt ribbon-tied berried myrtle garlands at its lower edge, with gilt floral garlands hanging from nails between each reserve, comprising:

An ice-pail and a cover (seau à glace)

A bottle cooler (seau à bouteille)

Three half-bottle coolers (seau à demi-bouteille)

A mustard-pot and cover (moutardier)

Two double jam-pots and covers on fixed stands (plateau à deux pots de confiture)

Seven plates (assiette à palmes)

A soup-plate (assiette à potage)

A pot à jus and cover

7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, the bottle-cooler





Provenance

From the service Fond verd Groupes de fleurs et fruits given in 1777 by Louis XVI to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of Austria and later King of Hungary and Bohemia (1741-1790).

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 4303).

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 on 31 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Dorothée Guillemée-Brulon: 'Les Grands Services de Sèvres Le service de Joseph II', L'Estampille, no. 158, June 1983, pp. 32-42.

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Little Berkhamsted, Vol. III, no. 77-6, pp. 577-579.
Manufactur:Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Services
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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