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PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTFAUX LACQUER AT SEVRES Though Asian lacquer was prized among the elite throughout much of the late 17th and 18th century, Marie Antoinette’s creation of her Grand Cabinet Intérieur at Versailles in the 1780s reignited the trend. Cabinet makers like Jean Henri Riesener and Adam Weiswiler produced fabulous French furniture with a Chinoiserie twist, and Sèvres, the porcelain manufactory of the King, was eager to follow suit. Faux lacquer decoration was primarily produced at Sèvres over a fifteen year period, beginning in the early 1790s, once the ability to precipitate platinum was achieved, though a small number of pieces before that time are known. Made by applying thick layers of deep cobalt-blue glazes to create a black ground color, works were then carefully painted in gold and platinum to look like Cantonese lacquer. The following five lots are from two different services made by the Sèvres manufactory in this style, including the first known, one for the marquis de Sémonville, Louis XVI's ambassador to Genoa in 1791 and a later service purchased for the Portuguese Ambassador to Russia in 1805.
A SET OF FOUR SEVRES PORCELAIN BLACK-GROUND CHINOISERIE PLATES (ASSIETTES UNIES)
CIRCA 1790-91, ONE WITH BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L’S MARK AND PAINTERS MARK FOR DIDIER PÈRE, INCISED T, THE REMAINING THREE WITH BLUE INTERLACED LS AND INCISED SCRIPT T OR CC MARKS, ONE WITH GILDER’S MARK IN BLUE FOR A MEMBER OF THE WEYDINGER FAMILY
細節
A SET OF FOUR SEVRES PORCELAIN BLACK-GROUND CHINOISERIE PLATES (ASSIETTES UNIES)
CIRCA 1790-91, ONE WITH BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L’S MARK AND PAINTERS MARK FOR DIDIER PÈRE, INCISED T, THE REMAINING THREE WITH BLUE INTERLACED LS AND INCISED SCRIPT T OR CC MARKS, ONE WITH GILDER’S MARK IN BLUE FOR A MEMBER OF THE WEYDINGER FAMILY
Each decorated in chased two-tone gilt and platinum with a chinoiserie vignette on a black octagonal panel centering a trailing wreath of flowering vine, the blossoms edged in gilt in the manner of cloisonné enamel, the border decorated with three further vignettes
9 5/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diameter
CIRCA 1790-91, ONE WITH BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L’S MARK AND PAINTERS MARK FOR DIDIER PÈRE, INCISED T, THE REMAINING THREE WITH BLUE INTERLACED LS AND INCISED SCRIPT T OR CC MARKS, ONE WITH GILDER’S MARK IN BLUE FOR A MEMBER OF THE WEYDINGER FAMILY
Each decorated in chased two-tone gilt and platinum with a chinoiserie vignette on a black octagonal panel centering a trailing wreath of flowering vine, the blossoms edged in gilt in the manner of cloisonné enamel, the border decorated with three further vignettes
9 5/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diameter
來源
Almost certainly from the service described in the sales records as Fond noir, chinois en ors de Couleurs et Platine. Fleurs émaillées and delivered 6 May 1791 to Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville, who served as Envoy- Extraordinary to Genoa 14 July 1791 - 10 October 1792.
Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962.
Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962.
出版
S. Schwartz, “Chinoiserie decoration on blackground Sèvres porcelain”, Schwartz Porcelain - The Lacquer Craze and its Impact on European Porcelain, English translation, 2005, p. 106 - footnote 49 (62.174.19 discussed).
D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, privately printed, 2005, vol. IV, no. 6.5.1791, p. 927.
D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, privately printed, 2005, vol. IV, no. 6.5.1791, p. 927.