CIRCA 1815, INCISED SCRIPT G TO FOUR SAUCERS

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A PARIS EMPIRE PART TEA SERVICE
Circa 1815, incised script G to four saucers
Painted in fuschia, dark green and ochre and enriched in gilt with a band of stylized swags pendant from rosettes and centering larger rosettes or a panther mask, with foliate scrolls centering a pinecone, and with winged lions with eagle heads, their tails extending into foliate scrolls, the interior with a wide burnished gold ground, comprising:
A large helmet-shaped cream-jug with hippogriff handle, 6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) high
Five cups and saucers, 5¼in. (13.4cm.) diameter, the saucers (11)

Provenance

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), acquired by family tradition circa 1818
By descent through the family
A bequest of Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972) to the present owner

Lot Essay

The service to which the present cups and saucers and cream-jug belong were acquired by the 1st Duke of Wellington while he served on the Continent as a ambassador to the restored Bourbon court of Louis XVIII in Paris and later as a British representative to the Congress of Vienna in 1815. A copy of a letter from the present duke confirming to the consignor the provenance of his father's bequest accompanies the lot.

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