CIRCA 1810-25, SOME WITH IRON-RED MANUFACTURE IMPERIAL MARKS FOR 1810, SOME WITH BLUE STENCILED RESAURATION MARKS OF INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING A FLEUR DE LYS, AND THREE WITH CHARLES X MARKS FOR 1825

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AN ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND NANKIN' PART SERVICE
CIRCA 1810-25, SOME WITH IRON-RED MANUFACTURE IMPERIAL MARKS FOR 1810, SOME WITH BLUE STENCILED RESAURATION MARKS OF INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING A FLEUR DE LYS, AND THREE WITH CHARLES X MARKS FOR 1825
Each center with a gilt foliate roundel within a border of pendant harebells forming a scalloped band enclosing a dot, the border in shades of warm ochre yellow, painted in sepia with trailing floral vine and anthemia between gilt bands, comprising:
A footed fruit bowl
Three low footed compotes (compotiers)
Three navette-shaped sugar-bowls and covers on fixed stands (sucriers)
Forty plates
10 7⁄8 in. (27.7 cm.) long, the sugar-bowl stands

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Lot Essay

A number of 'fond nankin' services were delivered to various illustrious personnages in the year 1810, including the Emperor Napoleon for use at his palace at Saint Cloud, the duc de Blacas (Ministre de la Maison du Roi) and the prince Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. For a discussion of these various services, which may possibly include the 1810 portions of the present service, see C. Leprince, Napoleon Ier & Sevres, Paris, 2016, p. 280-85.

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