A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PART-SERVICE FOR THE FRENCH-SWISS MARKET

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CHINESE EXPORT FROM EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS Property of Philippe Grand d’Hauteville From Château d’Hauteville, Vevey, Switzerland

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PART-SERVICE FOR THE FRENCH-SWISS MARKET

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1770

Details

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL PART-SERVICE FOR THE FRENCH-SWISS MARKET
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1770
Each piece decorated with the arms of Cannac with coronet, within a band of gilt spearheads at the rims, comprising:
Four saucer-shaped dishes, 10 in. (25.5 cm.) diam.
Two soup-plates, 8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam.
Forty-two plates, 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam.

Literature

Grand d’Hauteville, Le château d’Hauteville, Lausanne, 1932, p. 144.
D. Lüthi & N. Bock, Petit précis patrimonial, 23 études d'histoire de l'art offertes à Gaëton Cassina, article by Vincent Lieber, 'Allons dîner dans du "Chine de l'Inde". Porcelaines en Compagnie des Indes aux armes de familles suisses' , Lausanne, 2008, pp. 127-129.
Antoine Lebel, Armoiries françaises et suisses sur la porcelaine de Chine au XVIIIe siècle, Brussels, 2009, p. 260.

Special notice

These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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Lot Essay

This service was ordered for Pierre-Philippe Cannac (1705-1785) who was a banker, and settled in Switzerland having fled persecution in France belonging to what became known as the 'Second Refuge' (see A. Lebel, op. cit., 2009, p. 17).

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