CIRCA 1808-1809, IRON-RED STENCILLED M. IMP.LE DE SEVRES MARKS FOR 1808-9, VARIOUS PAINTED KILN AND INCISED MARKS

The Service d'Italie, comprising both a dinner (service d'entrée) and a dessert-service, entered the saleroom on 7 December 1808, its decoration respectively described as fond vert de chrome frise d'or etc. pour S.A.I. le prince Borghese and dessert fond vert, frise d'or, couronne de fleurs etc.. The full service is noted as being delivered on 27 April 1809 [Registre Vy 18, folio 99 verso]. The compliment listed included 36 soup-plates, 126 plates (of which 21 were not decorated with flowers), 4 vase-shaped ice-pails, covers and liners, 4 coolers for champagne flutes, 4 smaller coolers, 8 monteiths, 4 pierced fruit baskets, 4 oval dishes, 4 large salad bowls, 4 smaller bowls, 16 compotes for fruit, 4 sauceboats on fixed stands, 4 sauceboats, 11 compotes on fixed stands and 27 custard cups and covers.

Prince Camillo Borghese, Prince of Sulmona (1775–1832) was the second husband of Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon. Part of the dinner-service, including soup-plates without the crown of flowers, was offered at Christie’s in New York on 20 May 2008, lot 151.