A LOUIS XV SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND LINER

Lot 46
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£ 200 000
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Lot 46 | A LOUIS XV SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND LINER
Valeur estimée
£ 200 000 – 300 000
A LOUIS XV SILVER SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND LINER
MARK OF EDME-PIERRE BALZAC, PARIS, 1763-1764
Shaped oval and on four scrolling feet with rocaille terminals, applied with flying scrolling handles clad with acanthus foliage, the serpentine rim cast with ovolo border, the serpentine domed cover chased with husk festoons on a matted ground, interspersed with plain flutes framed within an ovolo border, the cauliflower shaped finial on rocky base, the plain liner with rococo ring handles, applied on each side of the body with a rococo cartouche slightly later engraved with a coat-of-arms with another in pretence, the cover similarly engraved on each side with a crest, the rim and cover each stamped with number '2'; marked on base, cover, and liner with charge mark of Jean-Jacques Prévost, date-letter, and maker's mark; the cauliflower leaf, cover, and liner each with décharge; later French control mark in use after 1893 on one foot, one handle, rim, cover bezel, and on cauliflower leaf
19 in. ( 48 cm.) long
247 oz. 7 dwt. (7,695 gr.)
The arms are those of Magan quartering others with Loftus in pretence, for William Henry Magan (1790-1840), of Clonearl, King's County, Ireland, and his wife Elizabeth Georgina Loftus (b.c.1796-1880), widow of Colonel Thomas Lowther Allen (d.1817), and second daughter and co-heir of Dudley Loftus, of Killyon Manor, co. Meath, whom he married in 1817.




Provenance

Probably Louis-Charles de Bourbon (1701-1775), comte d'Eu, by descent to his cousin,
Louis de Bourbon, (1725-1793), duc de Penthièvre, by descent to his daughter,
Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, duchesse d'Orléans (1753-1821).
William Henry Magan (1790-1840), of Clonearl, King's County, Ireland, and Elizabeth Georgina (c.1800-1880), daughter and co-heiress of Dudley Loftus, by descent to their son,
Captain William Henry Magan (1819-1860), then to his mother,
Elizabeth Georgina Magan, née Loftus (c.1800-1880), the by descent to her daughter,
Miss Augusta Elizabeth Magan (1825-1905), of Killyon Manor, co. Meath, presumably then to,
The Executors of the late Augusta Elizabeth Magan; possibly Bennett and Son Auctioneers, 6 Ormond Quay, Dublin, 7 April 1906.
Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915), of 58 Boulevard Flandrin and 21 rue Barbeau, Paris, architect, designer, ceramicist and collector,
Succession de Georges Hoentschel; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 31 March-2 April, 1919, lot 63 (68,000 FFr.)
A European Noble Family, Christie's, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 45.



Literature

H. Nocq, Le Poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926, vol. 1, illus. opp. p. 60 and 61.
D. Kisluk-Grosheide, D. Krohn and U. Leben (eds.), Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; The Metroplitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2013, p. 29-31.
M. Bimbenet-Privat, F. Doux, C. Gougeon, P. Palasi, Orfèvrerie de La Renaissance et des Temps Modernes, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: La Collection du Musée du Louvre, 2022, vol. 2, p. 60, fig. 82.2.
M. Debris, Edmé-Pierre et Jean-François Balzac, Orfèvres, Mémoire de recherches de Master 2, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2019.
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