TWO SEVRES (HARD PASTE) FOND POUPRE TOPOGRAPHICAL PLATES FROM LE SERVICE DE L'ARCHICHANCELIER

IRON-RED STENCILLED MARKS WITH DATE CODES FOR 1808 AND 1804/1805, THE FIRST ATTRIBUTED TO LEBEL, THE SECOND WITH PAINTER'S SCRIPT LB MARK FOR LEBEL AND INSCRIBED NO. 30., VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

細節

TWO SEVRES (HARD PASTE) FOND POUPRE TOPOGRAPHICAL PLATES FROM LE SERVICE DE L'ARCHICHANCELIER
Iron-red stencilled marks with date codes for 1808 and 1804/1805, the first attributed to Lebel, the second with painter's script LB mark for Lebel and inscribed No. 30., various incised marks
Finely painted in colours within a gilt band with landscapes and fables of 'Vue de l'entrée de Chartreuse de St. Bartholomeo.' and 'Vüe près des Thermes de Diocletien à ROME.' named in black and in purple on the underside, each purple border gilt with scallops suspending bell-flowers and enclosing rosettes and with a foliate wreath edging the well, within gilt line rim
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diameter (2)

來源

Gift of Napoléon Ier to Archchancellor Jean Jacques Régis to Combacérès, 1807
Acquired in France, circa 1947
Purchased at estate auction by a private collector
By descent through the family
The Property of a Lady; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1997, lot 105

出版

Dr. Rosmarie Stratmann-Döhler, 'Zur Hochzeit von Stephanie de Beaharnais - Höfische Geschenke aus der kaiserlichen Porzellanmanufakur Sèvres,' Weltkunst, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 16-19.

拍品專文

The present lot and the one following are from a dessert service commission by Napoléon Ier from the Sèvres factory as a gift to his Archchancellor, Jean Jacques Régis de Combacérès, to celebrate the advantageous marriage of his adopted daughter Stephanie de Beauharnais to Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, on 7 April 1806. Combacérès, who served in many capacities under Napoléon, is perhaps best remembered as the head of the commission which drafted the Code Napoléon.

See C. Bourgeois, Vues d'Italie, Paris, plate 39 bottom and 21 top for the engravings on which the present scences are based.