Lot 32
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A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU CHOCOLATE CUP AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SAUCER OF NAPOLEON (TASSE AU CHOCOLAT AB ET SA SOUCOUPE)
A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU CHOCOLATE CUP AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SAUCER OF NAPOLEON (TASSE AU CHOCOLAT AB ET SA SOUCOUPE)
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A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU CHOCOLATE CUP AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SAUCER OF NAPOLEON (TASSE AU CHOCOLAT AB ET SA SOUCOUPE)

1827-1834, BLUE STENCILED CROWNED LP MONOGRAM AND SEVRES DECORATING MARKS, THE CUP WITH GREEN PAINTED GROUND COLOR DATE OF 25 JULY 1834 AND D. FOR THE PAINTER DUCLUZEAU, INCISED KILN DATE FOR OCTOBER 1829, BLUE STENCILED STAR AND SEVRES MARK WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1834; THE SAUCER WITH GREEN PAINTED GROUND COLOR DATE OF 2 JUNE 1829, AND INCISED KILN DATE FOR JULY 1827, BOTH WITH VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS

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A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN BLEU NOUVEAU CHOCOLATE CUP AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SAUCER OF NAPOLEON (TASSE AU CHOCOLAT AB ET SA SOUCOUPE)
1827-1834, BLUE STENCILED CROWNED LP MONOGRAM AND SEVRES DECORATING MARKS, THE CUP WITH GREEN PAINTED GROUND COLOR DATE OF 25 JULY 1834 AND D. FOR THE PAINTER DUCLUZEAU, INCISED KILN DATE FOR OCTOBER 1829, BLUE STENCILED STAR AND SEVRES MARK WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1834; THE SAUCER WITH GREEN PAINTED GROUND COLOR DATE OF 2 JUNE 1829, AND INCISED KILN DATE FOR JULY 1827, BOTH WITH VARIOUS INCISED POTTER'S MARKS
Finely painted with a bust-length portrait of the Emperor within a gilt cartouche embossed at the corners with anthemia and scrolls and flanked by anthemia, palms and foliate scrolls in gilt and platinum, named 'Napoléon' on the underside, the saucer with a gilt rosette, the border in gilt and platinum on the blue-ground with an oak-leaf wreath between beaded bands
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) diameter (2)
Sale room notice
The Sèvres chocolate cup and saucer painted with a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte appears in the factory's records for 1835, not 1839 as noted in the catalogue footnote. It should not be considered a pair with the following lot, a cup and saucer of the same form painted with a portrait of his empress, Josephine de Beauharnais, which does not appear in the records until four years later.

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Lot Essay

The present portrait cup of Napoleon I and the following lot, a portrait of Empress Josephine, are likely the pair found in the factory salesroom records for 1839. It is interesting to compare these later examples with similar production dating to the reign of the emperor, for example the service made for Napoleon and painted with portraits of his second wife sold Christie's, New York, 21 October 2010, lot 642.

Although one would expect the saucer for this portrait cup of the Emperor to also be painted with a topographical view, the decorative vocabulary on both cups and the borders of both saucers is identical. There are, however, tiny differences in the execution, with elements found in platinum on one appearing in gold on the other.

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