Lot 57
57
A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU PART SERVICE (DEJEUNER 'LOSANGE A JOUR A ANSES')
A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU PART SERVICE (DEJEUNER 'LOSANGE A JOUR A ANSES')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER S FOR 1771 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR ASSELIN TO THE TRAY, INCISED SCRIPT SM TO THE TRAY, INCISED JA TO THE SUGAR-BOWL, (X IN SQUARE) AND U TO ONE CUP AND INCISED SQUIGGLE TO THE OTHER, SV TO ONE SAUCER AND NA TO THE OTHER

Details
A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU PART SERVICE (DEJEUNER 'LOSANGE A JOUR A ANSES')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter S for 1771 and painter's mark for Asselin to the tray, incised script SM to the tray, incised ja to the sugar-bowl, (X in square) and U to one cup and incised squiggle to the other, SV to one saucer and NA to the other
Each with a central panel painted with scenes of life in a military encampment within a tooled gilt band and reserved on a bleu nouveau ground, the rims with gilt with vine between gilt lines, comprising:
A lozenge-shaped tray (plateau losange 'à jour'), 14 7/8in. (37.8cm.) long overall
A footed cream-jug (pot à lait 'à trois pieds', 2ème grandeur), 3¾in. (96cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'Bouret', 2ème grandeur), 3 7/8in. (9.9cm.) high
Two cups and saucers (gobelet 'Bouillard' et soucoupe, 1ère grandeur), 2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, the cups; 5¼in. (13.4cm.) diam., the saucers (7)
Provenance
M. Baudouin, October 1772
The Antique Porcelain Company, New York
A Collection Formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller and offered for the Benefit of his Estate; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 11 April 180, Lot 257
Property of a New York Private Collector, Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1984, lot 77
Literature
Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, p. 612, footnote 3-g

Lot Essay

The Sèvres sales records note the sale to M. Baudouin, maitre des requêtes à Versailles on October 1772 of a déjeuner losange a jour bleu enfans colorés at a cost of 504 livres, likely the present service.

An example with a green ground, painted with similar children after Boucher adapted by Charles-Eloi Asselin for his painting on the service is in The Wallace Collection, London. See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, no. C391-400

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