A COMPOSITE SEVRES (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) AND PARIS PINK-GROUND PART DINNER-SERVICE
A COMPOSITE SEVRES (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) AND PARIS PINK-GROUND PART DINNER-SERVICE

SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THE DINNER AND SOUP-PLATES WITH CANCELLED GREEN LOZENGE DATE CODES FOR S.49, S.53, S.54, S.55, S.57. S.58 AND S.59, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS, PRINTED GREEN RETAILER'S MARKS FOR E & A PARIS

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A COMPOSITE SEVRES (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) AND PARIS PINK-GROUND PART DINNER-SERVICE
SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THE DINNER AND SOUP-PLATES WITH CANCELLED GREEN LOZENGE DATE CODES FOR S.49, S.53, S.54, S.55, S.57. S.58 AND S.59, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS, PRINTED GREEN RETAILER'S MARKS FOR E & A PARIS
Printed and painted with blue-and-white flower-spotted pink-ground border, with bouquets of flowers in richly-gilt cartouches, the centres with iron-red flower-entwined cartouches enclosing a gilt crescent moon and star; comprising: fifty-four dinner-plates, six soup-plates, four oval platters, one large oval fish-dish, two oval vegetable dishes, one sauce-boat on fixed stand, four circular serving-dishes in sizes, a large oval tureen and cover, a small oval tureen and cover
The fish-dish: 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide
来源
By repute, a gift from Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz.

拍品专文

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to 1876, Abdul Aziz established good diplomatic links with France and England and was the first Ottoman Sultan to visit Western Europe. A keen Francophile, it is intriguing to speculate that he may have been given the extensive dinner service, of which the present lot forms part, by Empress Eugénie on her visit to Constantinople in 1869.

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