A FRENCH POTTERY 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE
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A FRENCH POTTERY 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, VARIOUS NUMERALS, LETTERS AND CYPHERS, BLACK PRINTED RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TOY & LEVEILLE, 10 RUE DE LA PAIX, PARIS, AND FOR E LEVEILLE, 74 BT HAUSSMANN, PARIS

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A FRENCH POTTERY 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, VARIOUS NUMERALS, LETTERS AND CYPHERS, BLACK PRINTED RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TOY & LEVEILLE, 10 RUE DE LA PAIX, PARIS, AND FOR E LEVEILLE, 74 BT HAUSSMANN, PARIS
Printed and painted in a bold palette with Japonisme designs after Felix Bracquemond and Eugene Rousseau, including stylized fish, birds, insects and flowers, within blue feuilles-de-choux borders, comprising: twelve plates, an oval soup tureen and cover, an oval vegetable tureen and cover, and a circular vegetable tureen and cover
15¾ in. (40 cm.) wide, the soup tureen (18)
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Lot Essay

The 'Service Rousseau' is considered to be one of the earliest interpretations of Japonisme in French decorative arts. Inspired by Hokusai's woodcuts that Felix Bracquemond had 'discovered' in 1856, the service was exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Exhibitions of 1867, 1878 and 1889, the London Exhibition of 1871 and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Bracquemond's engravings for this service were so successfully reproduced that the designs were continued into the 20th Century. For a discussion of this service see Philippe Thibaut et al., 'Art, Industrie et Japonism, Le Service 'Rousseau', Exhibition Catalogue, Musée d'Orsay, 7 March - 26 June 1988, and Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Fäience et Porcelaine de Paris, Dijon, 1995, p. 209, pl. 201. E.

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