AN EXTENSIVE COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE - photo 1
AN EXTENSIVE COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE - photo 2

AN EXTENSIVE COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE

Lot 40
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027438
Lot 40 | AN EXTENSIVE COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
AN EXTENSIVE COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE

CIRCA 1761-1786, INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING VARIOUS DATE LETTERS, MOST ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K FOR 1763 OR S FOR 1771, VARIOUS PAINTERS', GILDERS' AND INCISED MARKS

Painted with groups of fruit and flowers reserved within variant by gilt foliate trails and palms, comprising:

Two monteiths (seau crénelé)

Three two-handled ice-pails and covers (seau à glace)

Three oval liqueur-bottle coolers and two pierced dividers (seau à liqueur ovale)

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

Six glass coolers (seau à verre)

Two 'feuille de choux' salad bowls of the first size (saladier à feuille de chou, 1ere grandeur)

Two 'feuille de choux' salad bowls of the second size (saladier à feuille de chou, 2eme grandeur)

Eight shaped-square dishes (compotier carré)

Seven shaped-oval dishes (compotier ovale)

Seven circular dishes (compotier rond à feuille de chou)

Four shell-shaped dishes (compotier coquille)

Two butter-tubs and covers on fixed stands (beurrier rond tenant au plateau)

Two oval sauce-boats and lozenge-shape stands (saucière ovale et plateau losange)

Two two-handled pierced cheese strainers and stands (fromager et plateau)

Two oval stands for mustard-pots (plateau de moutardier)

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

Forty-two ice cups (tasse à glace)

Twelve hexafoil ice-cups stands (plateau Bouret)

Eight cups and covers (pot à jus)

Five lobed ice-cup stands (soucoupe à pied)

Forty-five plates (assiette à palmes)

Together with seventy modern painted-wood wall brackets and five plate displays by Mongiardino

11 ½ in. (29 cm.) wide, the monteiths





Provenance

Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1720-1792), Secrétaire d’état and Contrôleur général des finances, 1763-1764 (the pieces marked with date letter 'K').

Possibly delivered to the merchant Poirier, 1771 (the items marked with date letter 'S').

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 nos. R 4234, R 4300, R 4302, R 4304, R4305, R 4307, R 4308, R 4309, R 4310, R 4312, R 4314, R 4315, R 4316).

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

Edouard Garnier, La Porcelaine de Sèvres, 1889, pl. X (a compotier coquille, a plateau Bouret, a seau crénelé, a seau à liqueur ovale, a pot à jus).

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, vol. II, no. 63-3, pp. 357-359, no. 71-8, pp. 475-478, no. 61-2, pp. 333-334, no. 61-6, pp. 341-342.
Manufactur:Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Dishes and trays, Services
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes
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