A PARIS (DAGOTY) CORAL-RED-GROUND CHINOISERIE PART TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE in imitation of red lacquer, each piece richly gilt with Oriental figures among palm trees on fenced terraces and by pagodas and pavilions and with richly gilt handles, rims and interiors, comprising:

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A PARIS (DAGOTY) CORAL-RED-GROUND CHINOISERIE PART TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE in imitation of red lacquer, each piece richly gilt with Oriental figures among palm trees on fenced terraces and by pagodas and pavilions and with richly gilt handles, rims and interiors, comprising:
An oviform teapot and cover with gilt serpent's head spout and angular handle and with quatrefoil neck, the spout with gilt chain attachment (spout repaired)
An oviform sugar-bowl on three gilt paw feet (two feet slightly chipped)
A pear-shaped milk-jug with trefoil lip (chips to underside of footrim)
A cylindrical tea-caddy
A conical bowl on three squared claw feet (one foot chipped, slight flaking to gilt palm tree)
Five large teacups with angular handles and one saucer
Six small teacups with gilt scroll handles and two saucers (one cup with flaking to gilding)
Two large saucers similar with meandering gilt branches
Six small saucers similar with meandering gilt branches (one with one leaf flaked)
-gilt Dagoty à Paris marks to most pieces, the saucers mostly with black script marks, circa 1810

Lot Essay

For a garniture of vases similarly decorated and acquired by the Louvre in 1984 see Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'Art, 1980-1984, pp. 168-169, no. 98. By 1807 the manufactury of Dagoty was becoming increasingly important, receiving orders both from Versailles and Compiègne. See also Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, op. cit., p. 173, no. 130 for a cup and saucer in the Musée National de La Malmaison

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