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Lot Essay
A fairly comprehensive dinner and dessert service of some 295 pieces, made at a total cost of 12,420 livres, the Service à Perles et Barbeaux may have been used as a principal service at one of the lesser royal châteaux, perhaps Trianon where the queen had two vast dining-rooms. The present small glass cooler is one of twenty-four seaux included in it at a cost of some 48 livres each, recorded in the Sèvres Sales Registers for 2 January 1782 as having been featured in the end-of-year sale the previous year.
A part service with very similar decoration, and probably part of the same Royal service, was sold Christie’s London, 28 June 1893, lots 373 and 374 (Lord Revelstoke). This same group reappeared on the market over eighty years later in an auction organized by Etude Ader at Palais Galliera, 29 November 1976, lot 384. Pieces from the service have since appeared sporadically at auction. The Victoria and Albert Museum, the musée du Louvre and the Palais de Versailles each retain examples of the service in their collection.
A part service with very similar decoration, and probably part of the same Royal service, was sold Christie’s London, 28 June 1893, lots 373 and 374 (Lord Revelstoke). This same group reappeared on the market over eighty years later in an auction organized by Etude Ader at Palais Galliera, 29 November 1976, lot 384. Pieces from the service have since appeared sporadically at auction. The Victoria and Albert Museum, the musée du Louvre and the Palais de Versailles each retain examples of the service in their collection.