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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH
Lot 180

A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH

CIRCA 1838-1840, BLUE-PRINTED DECORATING MARKS, GILDER'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARKS AND IRON-RED MARK FOR THE CHATEAU DE FONTAINBLEAU, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS INCLUDING FIRING MARKS WHICH CORRESPOND TO THE DATES OF DECORATION

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH
Circa 1838-1840, blue-printed decorating marks, gilder's mark, painter's marks and iron-red mark for the Chateau de Fontainbleau, various incised marks including firing marks which correspond to the dates of decoration
Made for the Chateau de Fontainbleau and decorated with a band of animals perched within rich foliate scrolls and iron-red ground cartouches of animals en grisaille and within gilt scroll cartouches, comprising:
An oviform teapot and cover (théière 'Pestum'), 7in. (18cm.) high
An oviform milk-jug with loop handle (pot à lait 'Pestum'), 73/8in. (19cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'à gorge'), 53/8in. (13.5cm.) high
Twelve coffee cans and saucers (gobelet 'Litron' et soucoupe, 2eme grandeur), 2½in. (6.5cm.) high, the cups, 5½in. (13.6cm.) diameter, the saucers (27)

Louis Philippe, King of the French, for whom designed
With Kugel, Paris
Anon. sale; Christie's, Monaco, 16 June 1990, lot 68

Specialist note

The present tea and coffee service with decoration based on drawings by Jean-Charles François Leloy, is part of a large service comprising over 2,000 pieces ordered by King Louis-Philippe on 26 June 1835. See Tamara Préaud, et al, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactury - Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in teh Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, no. 154a-c for a discussion of the commission and the variations in its decoration.