EIGHT SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND DISHES (COMPOTIERS)

Lot 391
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1027755
Lot 391 | EIGHT SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND DISHES (COMPOTIERS)
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
EIGHT SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND DISHES (COMPOTIERS)

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.
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