A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU GROUND ICE PAILS (GLACIERES A CHIMERES) FROM THE `SERVICE A VUES DIVERSES` COMMISSIONED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND DELIVERED TO LOUIS XVIII

Lot 31
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Lot 31 | A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU GROUND ICE PAILS (GLACIERES A CHIMERES) FROM THE 'SERVICE A VUES DIVERSES' COMMISSIONED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND DELIVERED TO LOUIS XVIII
Valeur estimée
$ 80 000 – 120 000
A PAIR OF SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLEU GROUND ICE PAILS (GLACIERES A CHIMERES) FROM THE 'SERVICE A VUES DIVERSES' COMMISSIONED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND DELIVERED TO LOUIS XVIII

1814-1816, IRON-RED PRINTED IMPERIAL EAGLE DECORATING MARKS, DATE NUMERALS 12 OR 13, ILLEGIBLE GREEN KILN NUMBERS, SIGNED (JEAN-FRANCOIS) ROBERT, THE SILVER WITH MAKER'S AND PARIS GUARANTEE MARKS

Each with two silver-gilt handles terminating in a female mask, the rim with a band of quatrefoil flower-heads above a band alternating anthemia and masks, finely painted with topographical scenes, either the 'Palais de St. Cloud' to one side and 'Palais de Schönbrunn' to the other or the 'Palais de Windsor' and the 'Palais de Sarskocello', the sides gilt with anthemia and scrollwork centering a flower-head medallion, the lower body with berried stiff-leaf tips, raised on four winged lion-mask and paw feet, square base

14 in. (35.6 cm.) high, the porcelain





Provenance

Ordered by Napoleon I during his reign, but purchased by King Louis XVIII on 15 October 1815.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1984, lot 80.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

Manufacture de Sèvres, Travaux de Peintre et Doreur, 1814, p. 15.
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