Lot Essay
The ornithological subjects on the present plates appear to have been taken from George Edwards, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds first published in France as Histoire naturelle des divers oiseaux in 1745 and 1748.
A single plate painted by Franois Aloncle with a Moucherole du Cap franois and from the same service as the present twelve plates is in The Wrightsman Collection (C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, nos. 104.) Two further plates were in the collection formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller and offered for the benefit of his estate, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 11 April 1980, lot 242.
See also Svend Eriksen, James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Svres Porcelain, Fribourg, 1968, pp. 206-227 for a discussion of the Razoumovski Service and Ghenete Zelleke, French Porcelain and the Dukes of Richmond, French Porcelain Society, vol. VII, 1991 for a discussion of the ornithological plates at Goodwood and the Edwards engravings related to them, both of which are bleu celeste ornithological services related to the present plates.
The following is a list of painter's whose marks appear on the present plates followed by the names of the birds represented.
Franois-Joseph Aloncle (1758-1781): Manakin, La Pie des indes, Bonana Minor de la jamaque, Pigeoin de la chine, Peroquet, verdriez de Surinam
Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (1761-1787): Le touralo, Piegrieche de D'anemarc, La moucherole des environs de Londres, La Bergeronette D'amerique
Etienne Evans (1752-1786): Legai bleu de l'amerique, Le toucan a gorge jeaune
A single plate painted by Franois Aloncle with a Moucherole du Cap franois and from the same service as the present twelve plates is in The Wrightsman Collection (C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, nos. 104.) Two further plates were in the collection formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller and offered for the benefit of his estate, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 11 April 1980, lot 242.
See also Svend Eriksen, James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Svres Porcelain, Fribourg, 1968, pp. 206-227 for a discussion of the Razoumovski Service and Ghenete Zelleke, French Porcelain and the Dukes of Richmond, French Porcelain Society, vol. VII, 1991 for a discussion of the ornithological plates at Goodwood and the Edwards engravings related to them, both of which are bleu celeste ornithological services related to the present plates.
The following is a list of painter's whose marks appear on the present plates followed by the names of the birds represented.
Franois-Joseph Aloncle (1758-1781): Manakin, La Pie des indes, Bonana Minor de la jamaque, Pigeoin de la chine, Peroquet, verdriez de Surinam
Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (1761-1787): Le touralo, Piegrieche de D'anemarc, La moucherole des environs de Londres, La Bergeronette D'amerique
Etienne Evans (1752-1786): Legai bleu de l'amerique, Le toucan a gorge jeaune