Lot Essay
The present pair painted in a very bright palette with exotic birds and with interlocking gilt feather borders are typical of the third period, 1775-1800, of the factory's production.
The ice-pails, covers and liners are perhaps from the so-called Duc de Lorraine service ordered in 1779 by the Duke of Lorraine and painted by Joseph Mayer, for a tureen, cover and stand from this service see A.-M Mariën-Dugardin, op. cit. (1972), p. 148, fig. 97.
The ice-pails, covers and liners are perhaps from the so-called Duc de Lorraine service ordered in 1779 by the Duke of Lorraine and painted by Joseph Mayer, for a tureen, cover and stand from this service see A.-M Mariën-Dugardin, op. cit. (1972), p. 148, fig. 97.