A SEVRES PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH (COMPOTIER CARRE) FROM THE SERVICE PRESENTED BY LOUIS XV TO EMPRESS MARIA-THERESA OF AUSTRIA

Lot 390
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Lot 390 | A SEVRES PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH (COMPOTIER CARRE) FROM THE SERVICE PRESENTED BY LOUIS XV TO EMPRESS MARIA-THERESA OF AUSTRIA
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A SEVRES PORCELAIN SQUARE DISH (COMPOTIER CARRE) FROM THE SERVICE PRESENTED BY LOUIS XV TO EMPRESS MARIA-THERESA OF AUSTRIA

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.
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