PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR (LOTS 240-241)

A SÈVRES FRISES RICHES SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (SUCRIER 'M. LE PREMIER', SON COUVERCLE ET PLATEAU ATTACHÉ)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER N FOR 1766, THE PAINTER'S MARK FOR NÖEL, INCISED SCRIPT J.F

Details

A SÈVRES FRISES RICHES SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (SUCRIER 'M. LE PREMIER', SON COUVERCLE ET PLATEAU ATTACHÉ)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER N FOR 1766, THE PAINTER'S MARK FOR NÖEL, INCISED SCRIPT J.F
Of quatrefoil serpentine form, the bowl bombé, each with frises riches border of shaded pink or green shells arranged in pairs alternate with blue enamel panels gilt with variant diaper patterns and suspending a garland of flowers, the button knop of the cover centering pink shaded shells overlapping seeded discs edged with gilt foliate scrolls and suspending a similar garland
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) long, the stand (2)

Provenance

Emeric-Joseph, marquis De Durfort-Civrac, delivered December 1766.
The Dukes of Rutland, Belvoir Castle.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1952, lot 41.
With The Antique Porcelain Company, London.
With Michele Beiny Inc., New York.

Literature

The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd., Coronation Exhibition 1953, exhibition catalogue, p. 59, illustrated center left of bottom shelf.
David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, privately printed, 2005, vol. II, pp. 371-372, cat no. 66-5.

Sale room notice

Please note the this piece has a date letter for 1766, not 1765 as stated in the printed catalogue.

Lot Essay

For a very similarly decorated dessert service dated 1766 made for Louis-C©sar-Renaud, Vicomte de Choiseul and formerly in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild, see Christie's, London, 17 April 2000, lot 89; also The Pompey Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 May 2002, lots 70 and 72 for similarly decorated plates.

Emeric-Joseph, marquis De Durfort-Civrac was a career diplomat: ambassador to Venice (September 1755-January 1760), to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (February-June 1760 and again April 1762-October 1765), to Austria from May 1766-May 1770.

Guillaume Nöel is recorded at Sèvres 1755-1800 as a painter specializing in flowers and in patterned decoration such as frises riches and frises colorées.

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