A SÈVRES NAVETTE-SHAPED STAND (plateau de sauciere) from the Service Arabesque ordered by Louis XVI, the centre painted en grisaille with a classical lady holding a basket of flowers and lying on a mound beside a lion on a pale-turquoise ground within a gilt-edged navette-shaped panel enclosed by bands of tailing vine and either end with stylised fluted half-pateræ and foliage scrolls, the blue-ground border with panels painted with foliage-scrolls, ears of corn and winged putti-masks between yellow and pink fretwork, the rim enriched in gilding (broken across and restored, slight flake to rim), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters gg for 1784, painter's mark for Nöel, incised 30

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A SÈVRES NAVETTE-SHAPED STAND (plateau de sauciere) from the Service Arabesque ordered by Louis XVI, the centre painted en grisaille with a classical lady holding a basket of flowers and lying on a mound beside a lion on a pale-turquoise ground within a gilt-edged navette-shaped panel enclosed by bands of tailing vine and either end with stylised fluted half-pateræ and foliage scrolls, the blue-ground border with panels painted with foliage-scrolls, ears of corn and winged putti-masks between yellow and pink fretwork, the rim enriched in gilding (broken across and restored, slight flake to rim), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters gg for 1784, painter's mark for Nöel, incised 30
34cm. wide

來源

Given by the Revolutionary Government to the minister of the King of Prussia, 1795

拍品專文

This service was ordered by Louis XVI in 1782 and produced between 1782 and 1787. The completed items of the service were stored at the factory and itemised in the annual stock lists. The sales' records for 2 December 1795 show the the Revolutionary Comité de Salut Public presented the service to the Minister of the King of Prussia at the vast cost of 140,000 livres. He had negotiated the Franco-Prussian Treaty in April 1795

Louis Le Masson, architect and engineer, was responsible for the special innovative shapes and decoration which was to be of 'Pompeiian' style. Unusually parts of the service were made in hard paste and parts in soft paste. Le Masson's designs survive in the Sèvres manufactory's archives including a watercolour drawing for the plateau de saucière. The gilder and painter Etienne-Henry Le Guay had to interpret Le Masson's designs and make them into working drawings for the decorators in the factory's atéliers.

Guillaume Noël working as Vincennes and Sèvres from 1755-1800 is recorded as painting arabesques on various wares from 1782. The painter's records, in the Sèvres factory archives, for G. Noël in 1784 list on June 19th '1 Plateua de Sauciere' as being decorated by him with Arabesques. This piece is identifiable during its final firing on June 6th, 1785, in the kiln registers where 1 Plateau de Sauciere is listed with arabesque decoration and gilding both by Noël.

Very few pieces from the service arabesque are known to survive: a plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, another was sold at Sotheby's, December 1989, lot 5 a hard paste tureen, cover and stand in a private collection and a seau crenelé in the Museo Nazional Duca di Martina, Naples.