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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH

CIRCA 1838-1840, BLUE-PRINTED DECORATING MARKS, GILDER'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARKS AND IRON-RED MARK FOR THE CHATEAU DE FONTAINBLEAU, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS INCLUDING FIRING MARKS WHICH CORRESPOND TO THE DATES OF DECORATION

細節
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH
Circa 1838-1840, blue-printed decorating marks, gilder's mark, painter's marks and iron-red mark for the Chateau de Fontainbleau, various incised marks including firing marks which correspond to the dates of decoration
Made for the Chateau de Fontainbleau and decorated with a band of animals perched within rich foliate scrolls and iron-red ground cartouches of animals en grisaille and within gilt scroll cartouches, comprising:
An oviform teapot and cover (théière 'Pestum'), 7in. (18cm.) high
An oviform milk-jug with loop handle (pot à lait 'Pestum'), 73/8in. (19cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'à gorge'), 53/8in. (13.5cm.) high
Twelve coffee cans and saucers (gobelet 'Litron' et soucoupe, 2eme grandeur), 2½in. (6.5cm.) high, the cups, 5½in. (13.6cm.) diameter, the saucers (27)
來源
Louis Philippe, King of the French, for whom designed
With Kugel, Paris
Anon. sale; Christie's, Monaco, 16 June 1990, lot 68
出版
For a discussion of this service, see Gérard Barbe, Le Service du Roi Louis Philippe au Chateau de Fontainbleau, Paris, 1988, pls. V, X, XIII, XIV, XVI and the drawings by Leloy.

拍品專文

The present tea and coffee service with decoration based on drawings by Jean-Charles François Leloy, is part of a large service comprising over 2,000 pieces ordered by King Louis-Philippe on 26 June 1835. See Tamara Préaud, et al, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactury - Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in teh Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, no. 154a-c for a discussion of the commission and the variations in its decoration.