ID 1027755
Lot 391 | EIGHT SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND DISHES (COMPOTIERS)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
CIRCA 1757-1775, INTERLACED L’S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE-LETTERS D, F, T AND X, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ AND GILDERS’ MARKS
Painted with groups of flowers within reserves framed by gilt foliage, flowers and rocaille scrolls, comprising:
Three shell-shaped dishes (compotiers coquille), 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) long
Three circular dishes (compotiers rond), 8 7/8 (22.5 cm.) long
Two square-shaped dishes (compotiers carré), 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Possibly purchased from Lazare Duvaux by Madame Victoire, daughter of Louis XV, 31 December 1757 (one compotier coquille).
Likely purchased by César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul, later duc de Choiseul-Praslin, 16 May 1759 (two compotiers rond).
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 Paris in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4301, 4302).
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.
| 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 |
| Address of auction |
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