CIRCA 1764-1765, INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS L AND M, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ MARKS

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A COMPOSITE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PART DINNER AND DESSERT SERVICE
CIRCA 1764-1765, INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS L AND M, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ MARKS
Painted with groups of flowers and fruits framed by gilt trailing flowers and palms, comprising:
Two 'feuille de chou' salad bowls of the second size (saladier à feuille de chou, 2eme grandeur)
Two shaped-oval dishes (compotier ovale)
A circular dish (compotier rond à feuille de chou)
Two oval basins (bassin de pot à eau ovale)
Two butter-tubs and covers on fixed stands (beurrier rond tenant au plateau)
An oval sugar-bowl and cover on a fixed stand (sucrier de Monsieur le Premier)
Eighteen plates (assiette à palmes)
9 ½ in. (24.2cm.) diameter, the plates

Provenance

Likely from the service delivered on 14 May 1765 to Claude Bonnet, payeur des rentes and agent in Paris for the court of Parma for Filippo, Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastella (1720-1765), husband of Louise-Elisabeth of France (1727-1759), Duchess of Parma, daughter of King Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska of France (the plates, two oval compotiers and a circular compotier).
Ferdinando (1751-1802), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (the plates, two oval compotiers and a circular compotier).
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (probably ERR nos. R 1382, R 4300, R 4308, R 4313, R4314, R 4315).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point.
Returned to France on 2 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

Literature

David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, vol. II, nos. 65-3, pp. 369-370.
Alessandra Ghidoli, Il patrimonio artistico del Quirinale, Le vaselle, Milan, 2000, pp. 113-149, no. 24.

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Lot Essay

The present plates, two oval dishes and circular dish are likely from an extensive dessert service delivered on 14 May 1765 to Claude Bonnet, the Parisian agent of Filippo, Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastella (1720-1765). The Duke passed away not long after the purchase, but it remained in the collection of his successor Ferdinando. A 1768 inventory of the items in the 'office et Gobelet de S.A.R' mentions "Un service de porcelain de Sève [sic], verd en bord doré" and lists a large quantity of pieces that can only correspond to the Bonnet purchase in 1765. Much of the service now rests in the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. See D. Peters, op. cit., pp. 369-370.

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