1787-1790, WITH INTERLACED L MARKS AND DATE LETTERS KK, LL, NN, VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S AND INCISED MARKS

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A Sevres part dinner-service
1787-1790, with interlaced L marks and date letters kk, ll, nn, various painter's, gilder's and incised marks
Painted with a band of meandering stylised fuschia and exotic green, pink and yellow flowers and foliage between pale-blue bands gilt with entwined foliage and quatrefoils, the centre of the plates and dishes with a similar circular or oval medallion of the same flowers, comprising:
Four ice-pails, covers and liners
Two bottle-coolers (seaux-à-bouteilles)
Two oval bottle-coolers with fixed pierced dividers (seaux-à-liqueurs ovales)
Four oval sauce-tureens, covers and fixed stands
Eight oval dishes (compotiers ovales)
Eight shell-dishes (compotiers à coquilles)
Four square-shaped dishes
Two salad-bowls
Ten circular dishes
Sixty-nine plates
(some pieces with restoration, chipping and cracks, and some rubbing to gilding)

Provenance

Almost certainly purchased by Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.

Literature

1852 Inventory, 'Purple and Gold Dessert Service.
1869 Inventory, 'An old Sevres Service white with light blue and gold borders and wreaths of flowers'.
1896 Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirloons), p. 117 v, Chapel Corridor, 'An old Sevres porcelain service, white with light blue and gold borders and wreaths of flowers consisting of..'

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Cf. a plate of the same pattern, from the Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, sold in our Paris Rooms, 6th December 2001, lot 242.

This service is of the pattern commissioned from Sèvres by Count Montmorin de Saint'Hérem; his name was thereafter associated with it. It was however evidently a stock pattern available to other clients.

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