A SEVRES GOLD GROUND PART TEA SERVICE (CABARET A DEJEUNER)

IRON-RED STENCILLED IMPERIAL MARKS FOR 1810 TO ALL BUT THE SAUCERS, GILDER'S 29 J BT TO THE MILK-JUG, 16 J BT TO THE CUPS FOR BOITEL

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A SEVRES GOLD GROUND PART TEA SERVICE (CABARET A DEJEUNER)
IRON-RED STENCILLED IMPERIAL MARKS FOR 1810 TO ALL BUT THE SAUCERS, GILDER'S 29 J BT TO THE MILK-JUG, 16 J BT TO THE CUPS FOR BOITEL
Finely painted with bouquets of flowers on a shaded sepia ground, the panels reserved on the burnished gold ground firther chased with paired foliate scrolls, the lower portion of the two serving pieces gilt with stiff leaf tips alternate with stylized tulips, comprising:
A coffee-pot (cafetière 'Grecque'), cover lacking, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'à pied anse volute'), the handles replaced, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Two cups and saucers (gobelets 'Litron' et ses soucoupes, 2^.^.^. grandeur) (7)

Lot Essay

The present pieces are from a larger cabaret that originally also included a milk-jug, a basin, and four more cups and saucers. Entered into the saleroom registers on 29 August 1810 (Registre Vu 1, folio 98 verso, n^. 258-45), the description read: cabaret à déjeuner cartels de fleurs fond d'or et ornements brunis à l'effet. The gilder's mark of Charles-Marie-Pierre Boitel for 16 and 29 July of that year appear on the coffee-pot and cups.

For the watercolour and pencil rendering of the design for the sugar-bowl, dated 1801, see Tamara Préaud, et al., The Sèvres Porcelain Manuafactory: Alexandre Brogniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, Bart Center for Graduate Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1997, p. 168, no. 3. [fig. 1]

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