1816, THE TRAY SIGNED C.DEVELLY 1816, BLUE PRINTED INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING A FLEUR-DE-LYS ABOVE SÈVRES TO EACH PIECE, THE TRAY WITH CROWNED BLUE PRINTED INTERLACED L MARK AND GILDER'S Q.A. AND D.Y. OF DUROSEY, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS INCLUDING DL, 9Z12 TO TEAPOT, CS TO MILK-JUG, DL TO SUGAR-BOWL, LE AND 2 TO CUPS AND 2 TO SAUCERS AND LE TO TRAY

细节

A Sèvres (hard paste) grey-ground Royal Presentation tête à tête
1816, the tray signed C.Develly 1816, blue printed interlaced L mark enclosing a fleur-de-lys above Sèvres to each piece, the tray with crowned blue printed interlaced L mark and gilder's Q.A. and D.Y. of Durosey, various incised marks including DL, 9Z12 to teapot, CS to milk-jug, DL to sugar-bowl, Le and 2 to cups and 2 to saucers and Le to tray
Each piece painted with a harvesting scene within a rectangular gilt gadrooned cartouche surrounded by grisaille rural trophies including birds, animals, figures, foliage and flowers between richly gilt band rims, the lower rim with gilt stiff leaves and stylised tulips, the spouts, handles and interiors to the cups richly gilt, comprising:

An oviform teapot and inset cover (Théïère Pestum) with high scroll handle, painted with a beekeeper collecting a swarm beside bee skeps and picking cherries in an extensive landscape, the shoulder gilt with birds among garlands of fruit and foliage (minute flake to enamel in foreground of fruit picking scene), 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high
A slender oviform milk-jug (Pot à lait Pestum) with a milk-maid and butter making before a cottage in a wooded landscape, the lip gilt with stylised scrolling foliage, cornucopiæ and cockerels' heads (handle restored), 7½in. (19cm.) high
An oviform sugar-bowl and flared cover (Pot à sucre Pestum, 2 ème grandeur) with gilt lions' mask handles, painted with melons in a vegetable garden and figures by a well, the reverse with apple-pickers, the cover gilt with pears and pineapples (very slight flaking to enamels of vegetable garden scene and to gilt border), 5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
Two cups and saucers (Tasses à thé anglaises, 1 ère grandeur) with harvesters gathering hay and corn in extensive landcapes, the saucers with elaborate grisaille winged caryatid figures and harvest trophies.
An oval tray, the gilt oblong octagonal cartouche with grape-pressing, a picnic and figures dancing while others arrive with the grapes from the vineyard, the border gilt with birds among scrolling vine (some minute flaking to enamels in the foreground), inscribed on the reverse in ink Mr. de Bart Brusley, 17½in. (44.5cm.) wide (8)

来源

Delivered to Louis XVIII on his visit to the factory on 26 June 1816.

拍品专文

This hitherto lost déjeuner is fully recorded in the Sèvres archives and listed in Marcelle Brunet's unpublished thesis for L'Ecole du Louvre.

Described as "Déjeuner des récoltes agrestes" the painted decoration was carried out by Develly, the gilding by Boullemier and the ornements by Durosey. The significance of the gilt QA on the plateau is not clear.

The cost, which included a box and a third cup and saucer which are no longer with the service, was 2.715fr.

For the painting Develly was paid as follows:

Plateau 570fr.
Théière 130fr.
Pot à sucre 130fr.
Pot à lait 85fr.
Tasses à thé 60fr. each

This represented around 55 of the cost price to the manufacture.

The unsigned and undated ink and wash drawing for the scene on the plateau: "La fin des vendanges, le pressoir" recorded in the G. Haumont Collection, and here reproduced from the photograph in the Archives de Sèvres,'was correctly assumed by Mlle Brunet to be a study for this déjeuner. In her opinion it depicts Les Coteaux de Suresnes, a village not far from Sèvres.

Christie's would like to thank the Archives de Sèvres for their help in identifying this service.

Jean-Charles Develly, painter at Sèvres 1813-1847.

Charles-Christian-Marie Durosey, gilder at Sèvres 1802-1830. Seven other members of his family were also employed at the manufacture.

Antoine-Gabriel Boullemier, jeune, gilder at Sèvres 1803. Among his most important works were the Guéridon des Saisons at Fontainebleau. Five other members of his family were employed at the manufacture.