A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PIERCED CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONNIERE CONTOURNEE OR TENANT AU PLATEAU)
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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| Auctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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| Event location | USA, New York |
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ID 1027713
Lot 393 | A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PIERCED CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONNIERE CONTOURNEE OR TENANT AU PLATEAU)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
CIRCA 1759, BLUE INTERLACED L’S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER F ON STAND, PAINTER’S MARK FOR C.-L. MEREAUD LE JEUNE
Of shaped oval form, painted with flowers within reserves framed with pierced foliate scrollwork, the finial as a cluster of chestnuts and leaves
11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) long
Provenance
Possibly delivered to the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1760.
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 4233).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1184).
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
John Whitehead, French Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century, 1992, p. 171 and p. 251.
| Manufactur: | Sèvres Porcelain Factory |
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| Applied technique: | Pottery |
| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Dishes and trays |
| 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: | Dishes and trays |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
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