1787-1790, INTERLACED L MARKS AND DATE LETTERS KK, LL, NN AND VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S AND INCISED MARKS

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A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE
1787-1790, INTERLACED L MARKS AND DATE LETTERS KK, LL, NN AND VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S AND INCISED MARKS
Painted with a band of meandering stylised fuchsia and exotic green, pink and yellow flowers and foliage between pale-blue bands gilt with entwined foliage and quatrefoils, the centre of the plates and dishes with a similar circular or oval medallion of the same flowers, comprising:
Three two-handled three-footed cylindrical ice pails, liners and covers A bottle coolers (seaux-à-bouteilles)
Two oval bottle coolers with integrated pierced liners (seaux-à-liqueurs ovales)
Three sauce tureens, covers and fixed stands
A circular bowl
Seven oval dishes (compotiers ovales)
Eight shell-shaped dishes (compotiers à coquilles)
Nine circular saucer dishes
Three shaped square dishes
Sixty various dinner plates (106)

Provenance

Almost certainly purchased by Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.
Furniture, Porcelain and Silver from Longleat, Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 386.

Literature

1852 Longleat Inventory, 'Purple and Gold Dessert Service'.
1869 Longleat Inventory, 'An old Sevres Service white with light blue and gold borders and wreaths of flowers'.
1896 Longleat Inventory (2nd Marquess' Heirloons), p. 117 v, Chapel Corridor, 'An old Sevres porcelain service, white with light blue and gold borders and wreaths of flowers consisting of..'

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A plate of the same pattern, from the Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, sold Christie's, Paris, 6th December 2001, lot 242.

This service is of the pattern commissioned from Sévres by Count Montmorin de Saint'Hérem; his name was thereafter associated with it. It was however evidently a stock pattern available to other clients.

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