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Lot 25

An Assembled Sèvres Feuille-de-Choux Porcelain Part Service Painted with Trophies
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$6,000 - 8,000
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$7,560
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Lot Description
An Assembled Sèvres Feuille-de-Choux Porcelain Part Service Painted with Trophies
Circa 1765-1767
bearing blue interlaced Ls, date letters M (1765), N (1766) or O (1767), painter's mark of an anchor for Buteux to all but two plates and with various incised marks; painted with flower garlands suspended from blue feuille-de-choux cartouches, the center with respective trophies of Gardening, Music, War and the Seasons, comprising:
an ice pail, cover and liner
10 plates;

together with an assembled Sèvres feuille-de-choux part service bearing various date letters (second half 18th century), painters' and gilders' marks and incised marks; painted with loose bouquets only within blue feuille-de-choux and a loose bouquet in the center of each plate, comprising:
a salad bowl
a shaped dish
13 plates
two shallow bowls
a cream jug
four matched teacups and saucers;

together with a group of non-Sèvres feuille-de-choux replacements, comprising: 
a plate (likely hard-paste Paris porcelain)
12 plates
two Derby ice pails (covers and liners lacking), circa 1820
12 Derby plates, circa 1820
a Derby saucer, circa 1820;
65 items total.

Height of Sèvres ice pail overall 8 x width over handles 9 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance (cream jug and matched cups and saucers):
The Hillingdon Collection
Adrian Sassoon, London, nos. 3659, 3738, 3739, 3737, and 3741, 13 June 2003 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with invoice)

Note:
Cf. D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol. II, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, pp. 361-362, no. 65-4 and Dalva Brothers – Parisian Taste in New York, Christie’s, New York, 21 October 2020, sale 19021, lot 206 for the trophy-decorated part service.
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