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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES BOWL FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILLIPE, KING OF THE FRENCH

INCISED AND GREEN STENCILLED MARKS FOR 1847, BLUE LOUIS PHILLIPE MONOGRAM MARK FOR THE SAME YEAR, STENCILLED IRON-RED CHATEAU DE F. BLEAU SEAL, THE MOUNTS LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SÈVRES BOWL FROM THE 'SERVICE DE CHASSE' OF LOUIS PHILLIPE, KING OF THE FRENCH
Incised and green stencilled marks for 1847, blue Louis Phillipe monogram mark for the same year, stencilled iron-red Chateau de F. Bleau seal, the mounts late 19th/20th century
With pierced gallery and upright bracket handles suspending laurel swags, the bowl made for the Chateau de Fontainbleau and decorated with a band of animals perched within foliate scrolls and iron-red cartouches of animals en grisaille and within gilt scroll cartouches, on pierced stem and shaped circular foot
17in. (43.2cm.) wide

Literature

For a discussion on this service, see Gérard Barbe, Le Service du Roi Louis Philippe au Château de Fontainbleau, Paris, 1988, pls. V, X, XIII, XIV, XVI and the drawings by Leloy.

Lot Essay

The present bowl 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 Manufactory - Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 1997, no. 154a-c for a discussion of the commission and the variations in its decoration.

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