A PARIS GREEN-GROUND ETHNOGRAPHIC PART DESSERT SERVICE

CIRCA 1820, POSSIBLY POUYAT ET RUSSINGER

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A PARIS GREEN-GROUND ETHNOGRAPHIC PART DESSERT SERVICE
CIRCA 1820, possibly Pouyat et Russinger
Painted with a peasant figure in a local landscape named in iron-red on the underside, including French, Italian, Spanish, and Egyptian settings, the green border edged with gilt bands, the handles of the fruit coolers as parcel gilt-biscuit herm busts, the finials as parcel gilt-biscuit putti playing pipes, comprising:
Two fruit coolers, covers and liners, 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) high
A footed circular reticulated basket, 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high
Two paw-footed sauce tureens and covers on fixed stands, 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Two graduated footed-compotes, 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high, the larger
Eighteen plates, 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter (31)

Provenance

with Clifford D. Hanson Fine Antiques, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1975
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 May 2005, lot 100

Lot Essay

See Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, Fa/uience et porcelaine de paris XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, 1995, pp. 276-277, figs. 256 and 257 for a yellow ground-dessert service attributed to Pouyat et Russinger with biscuit figures of putti with gilt wings as supporters for the cake stand. These figures are similar in feel and expression to those as finials on the present service.

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