• Christies auction house James Christie logo

    Sale 2186

    European Ceramics, Dutch Delftware and Glass

    Hong Kong

    |

    18 November 1992

    Browse Sale
Previous Lot
Search
Next Lot
    • Christies auction image unavailable
    Lot 125

    A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE SERVICE AGRONOMIQUE, one inscribed récolte des cerises with figures up ladders picking cherries, a donkey carrying panniers and children eating cherries and trying to reach branches of fruit from a woman, the other inscribed récolte et conservation des fruits de dessert, with farm workers carrying fruit to a fruit store before fruit pickers, within dark-blue bands with gilt cells and pale-blue borders with gilt anthemion, foliage, and dots (the first with restored rim chip at 3 o'clock), blue and sepia printed Sèvres marks below a star above the date code for 1831 and within a circle, various incised marks, painter's mark P and gilder's D and B.F.

    Price realised

    NLG 6,900

    Estimate

    NLG 10,000 - NLG 15,000

    Follow lot

    A PAIR OF SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE SERVICE AGRONOMIQUE, one inscribed récolte des cerises with figures up ladders picking cherries, a donkey carrying panniers and children eating cherries and trying to reach branches of fruit from a woman, the other inscribed récolte et conservation des fruits de dessert, with farm workers carrying fruit to a fruit store before fruit pickers, within dark-blue bands with gilt cells and pale-blue borders with gilt anthemion, foliage, and dots (the first with restored rim chip at 3 o'clock), blue and sepia printed Sèvres marks below a star above the date code for 1831 and within a circle, various incised marks, painter's mark P and gilder's D and B.F.

    Contact us

    • Contact Client Service

      info@christies.com

      New York +1 212 636 2000

      London +44 (0)20 7839 9060

      infoasia@christies.com

      Asia +852 2760 1766

    Lot Essay

    cf. H. P. Fourest, A. Hallé and T. Préaud, Porcelaines de Sèvres au XIXe siècle, no. 80 for another plate from this service

    See illustration

    Recommended features

      • Collecting Guide: Lalique
      • Collecting Guide: Lalique

        Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May

      • A leap into space: Malevich’s
      • A leap into space: Malevich’s Suprematist Composition

        Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art

Share
Email
Copy link
Share
Email
Copy link