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THE MARIA-THERESA SERVICE
(Lots 19-20)
For a discussion of this service belonging to the empress of Austria, Marie-Antoinette's mother, see Dorothie Guillemi-Brulon, "Le service' rubans verts de l'Imperatrice d'Autriche", L'Estampille, pp. 22-33 and the exhibition catalogue Versailles et les tables royals en Europe, Château de Versailles, 1993, pp. 334-335.
Examples from the service, which originally comprised eighty-four pieces as well as biscuit figures, are in the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen (Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, S/gevres Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 308, ill. 121); The Hofburg, Vienna; The Royal Palace, Stockholm; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and the Louvre, Paris.
A plate from the collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss was sold Christie's, Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 126.
A SEVRES LOBED OVAL MUSTARD-POT STAND AND A JUICE POT FROM THE MARIA-THERESE SERVICE (PLATEAU DE MOUTARDIER ORDINAIRE ET POT A JUS)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E FOR 1757-1758 TO BOTH, PAINTER'S MARK FOR JOUFFROY AND INCISED BC TO THE STAND, INCISED P TO THE CUP
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A SEVRES LOBED OVAL MUSTARD-POT STAND AND A JUICE POT FROM THE MARIA-THERESE SERVICE (PLATEAU DE MOUTARDIER ORDINAIRE ET POT A JUS)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter E for 1757-1758 to both, painter's mark for Jouffroy and incised bc to the stand, incised P to the cup
Both painted with a garland of flowers overlaid with entwined gilt scallop-edged green ribbons, a gilt scalloped edging the dentil rim
7¼in. (18.4cm.) long, the stand; 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high, the cup (2)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter E for 1757-1758 to both, painter's mark for Jouffroy and incised bc to the stand, incised P to the cup
Both painted with a garland of flowers overlaid with entwined gilt scallop-edged green ribbons, a gilt scalloped edging the dentil rim
7¼in. (18.4cm.) long, the stand; 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high, the cup (2)