Lot Essay
The present basket, three others similar, two sugar-bowls, two large basins, eight serving dishes and two ice-pails comprise the small service from which it comes.
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1811, IRON-RED STENCILLED AND INCISED MARKS
Details
A SEVRES (FIRST EMPIRE) GOLD-GROUND RETICULATED BASKET FROM THE 'SERVICE A MARLY D'OR'
1811, iron-red stencilled and incised marks
Of flaring cylindrical form, moulded and pierced as a laced trellis basket, the lower portion with four oblong octagonal panels in two sizes finely painted with birds against a pale blue sky and reserved on the burnished gold ground, chased between each cartouche with paired foliate scrolls terminating in rosettes and issuing from a central lozenge, the flaring foot as reticulated basket staves, the bottom of the basket level with the lacing above the painted birds
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26.1 cm.) diameter
1811, iron-red stencilled and incised marks
Of flaring cylindrical form, moulded and pierced as a laced trellis basket, the lower portion with four oblong octagonal panels in two sizes finely painted with birds against a pale blue sky and reserved on the burnished gold ground, chased between each cartouche with paired foliate scrolls terminating in rosettes and issuing from a central lozenge, the flaring foot as reticulated basket staves, the bottom of the basket level with the lacing above the painted birds
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26.1 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Le Prince de Schwarzenberg, delivered 5 May 1812