PROPERTY OF A LADY

A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE (SERVICE 'ZONES VIOLETTE ET VOLBULIS')

CIRCA 1786, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, SOME ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS II FOR 1786, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR MME BOUILLAT, MME BUNEL, COMMELIN, MLLE FONTAINE, LAROCHE, MME LE BEL, MME ROGUIER, VIELLARD FILS, AND MLLE XHROUUET, GILDER'S MARKS FOR MIREY AND VINCENT, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

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A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE (SERVICE 'ZONES VIOLETTE ET VOLBULIS')
Circa 1786, blue interlaced L's marks, some enclosing date letters II for 1786, painter's marks for Mme Bouillat, Mme Bunel, Commelin, Mlle Fontaine, Laroche, Mme Le Bel, Mme Roguier, Viellard fils, and Mlle Xhrouuet, gilder's marks for Mirey and Vincent, various incised marks
The center with a bouquet of cornflowers, violets and forget-me-nots within a carmine medallion, the cavetto with scattered convolvulus, the border with a trailing vine of convolvulus between gilt-edged mauve bands further gilt with a string of beads, comprising:
Two lobed oval sugar-bowls and covers on fixed stands (sucriers 'de M. Le Premier'), 9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) long
Two double jam-pots on fixed stands (plateaux à deux pots), 9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) long
Two shell-shape dishes (compotiers coquilles), 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) long
Two circular dishes (compotiers ronds), 8½ in. (21.6 cm.) diameter
Three oval dishes (compotiers ovales), 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) long
Five ice-cream cups (tasses à glace), 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high
Ten dessert plates (assiettes unies), 9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) diameter (32)

Provenance

Hans Konrad Hottinger, delivered 8 September 1787.
Paris Art Market, 1986.
Private Collection, France.
with M.S. Rau, New Orleans.

Literature

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th century, 2005, vol. IV, no. 87-12.

Lot Essay

Hans Konrad Hottinger, a Paris banker from a Swiss family, founded the Paris banking firm of R. Hottinger et Companie in 1786 with his partner Denis de Rougemont. The firm closed four years later and Hottinger traveled to London in 1793. After five years in England, he returned to Paris, founding the new firm of Hottinger et Cie.

The following flower painters are responsible for the decoration of the present part service:
Mme Genévieve-Louise Bouillat, active 1776-1798
Mme Marie-Jeanne-Barbe Bunel, active 1775-1817
Michel-Gabriel Commelin, active 1768-1802
Mlle Marie-Louise-Françoise-Sophie Fontaine, active 1777-1794
Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche, active 1758-1801
Mme Marie Marguerite-Gabrielle Le Bel, active 1774-1790, 1804-1805
Mme Jeanne-Joséphine Roguier, active 1782-1793
Pierre-Joseph-André Viellard fils, active 1783-1793
Mlle Marie-Claude-Sophie Xhrouuet, active 1775-1788

In his entry for this service, David Peters comments that factory records attribute the gilding of this service to Weydinger. However, of the pieces comprising the present lot, only two have a gilder's mark: one plate with that for François Mirey, active 1787-1792 and another with that for Henry-François Vincent père, active 1753-1806.

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