ID 1027736
Lot 390 | A SEVRES PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH (COMPOTIER CARRE) FROM THE SERVICE PRESENTED BY LOUIS XV TO EMPRESS MARIA-THERESA OF AUSTRIA
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 7 000
CIRCA 1758, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E, PAINTER’S MARK FOR C.-F. BECQUET
Painted with a central spray of flowers and two entwined gilt-edged green ribbons over an undulating flower garland, with a gilt scalloped band edging the dentil rim
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
From the service à rubans verd given by Louis XV to Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria in December 1758.
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 4324).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point.
Returned to France on 23 May 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Dorothée Guillemée Brulon, 'Le service à rubans verts de l’Impératrice Marie-Thérèse', L’Estampille, March 1985, no. 179, pp. 23-33. Dorothée.
Guillemée Brulon, Versailles et les tables royales en Europe, exhibition catalogue, Musée National des Château de Versailles et de Trianon, 3 November 1993 to 27 February 1994, cat. nos. 274-286.
David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, vol. II, no. 58-3, pp. 315-316.
| 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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