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PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
TWO SEVRES PINK-GROUND HEXAFOIL FEUILLE-DE-CHOUX ICE-CUP STANDS (PLATEAUX 'BOURET')
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER V FOR 1774, GILDER'S MARKS FOR LE GUAY AND BAUDOUIN PÈRE, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR TANDART TO EACH
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TWO SEVRES PINK-GROUND HEXAFOIL FEUILLE-DE-CHOUX ICE-CUP STANDS (PLATEAUX 'BOURET')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter V for 1774, gilder's marks for Le Guay and Baudouin père, painter's marks for Tandart to each
Each painted in the center with a loose bouquet reserved within a triangular panel edged with gilt ciselé grasses and issuing flower sprays on the pink ground, the border edged in gilt, a band of moulded and gilt feuille-de-choux along the rim
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diameter (2)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter V for 1774, gilder's marks for Le Guay and Baudouin père, painter's marks for Tandart to each
Each painted in the center with a loose bouquet reserved within a triangular panel edged with gilt ciselé grasses and issuing flower sprays on the pink ground, the border edged in gilt, a band of moulded and gilt feuille-de-choux along the rim
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diameter (2)
Provenance
Henry Ford, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Anne Ford Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Johnson, Bel Aire, California; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1972, lot 28.
Anne Ford Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Johnson, Bel Aire, California; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1972, lot 28.
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EARLIER PROVENANCE
M. Jacques Dumoulin
The Angerstein Collection; offered but not sold Christie's London, 10 May 1860, lot 122 (the service virtually complete as compared with the Dumoulin sales record)
The present two plateaux 'Bouret' are from a service acquired by M. Jacques Dumoulin, a marchand-bijoutier in Paris, during the first half of 1774. Matching baskets were acquired the following year. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2005, vol. II, no. 74-6.
M. Jacques Dumoulin
The Angerstein Collection; offered but not sold Christie's London, 10 May 1860, lot 122 (the service virtually complete as compared with the Dumoulin sales record)
The present two plateaux 'Bouret' are from a service acquired by M. Jacques Dumoulin, a marchand-bijoutier in Paris, during the first half of 1774. Matching baskets were acquired the following year. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2005, vol. II, no. 74-6.