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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE

Lot 404
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 94 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027723
Lot 404 | A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 30 000
A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER SERVICE

CIRCA 1777 AND 1784, INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATES LETTERS Z AND GG, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ MARKS

Each painted with groups of fruits and flowers at its center, reserved within gilt trailing flowers and ribbon-tied palms, with gilt floral wreaths suspended from nails between the reserves, comprising:

Two ice-pails and covers (glacières)

Twenty-two plates (assiettes à palmes)

9 ½ in. (24.2 cm.) diameter, the plates





Provenance

From the service fond verd, Groupes de fleurs et fruits presented by King Louis XVI on 22 October 1784 to Prince Henry of Prussia (1726-1802).

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, R 4304).

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

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, Vol. III, no. 84-14, pp. 747-749. Versailles et les tables royales en Europe, exhibition catalogue, Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 3 November 1993 to 27 February 1994, cat. no. 301, p. 187 and p. 341.
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