THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOT 612)

TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN 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, BOTH INSCISED DC

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN 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, both inscised DC
Each painted with a loose bouquet reserved within a triangular panel edged with gilt ciselé grasses issuing flower sprays, the border edged in gilt, a band of molded and gilt feuille-de-choux along the rim
8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

M. Jacques Dumoulin, delivered in 1774.
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).
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.
Property from the Valentine Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2005, lot 85.

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Lot Essay

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.

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