Sold for $7,560
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.
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.
Please note that the contents of this lot have been updated since the catalog intitially went to print.
Trophy Service:
An ice pail, cover and liner (sceau à glace), date letter O
Ten plates (assiettes feuille-de-choux),1765-1766, date letter M to one, N to seven, one unmarked - diameter 9 5/8 inches (2 examples); diameter 9 7/8 inches (2 examples); diameter 10 inches (6 examples).
Non-Trophy Service
A salad bowl (saladier, 1ère grandeur), traces of an interlaced Ls mark - height 3 5/8 x diameter 10 1/2 inches.
A shaped dish, bearing interlaced Ls marked enclosing date letter F and incised CN 39932 - width 9 inches.
13 plates (assiettes feuille-de-choux) see below for marks and makers- diameter 9 1/2 inches (9 examples); diameter 9 5/8 inches (3 examples); diameter 9 3/8 inches (1 example).
MARKS:
- Date letter Z for 1777, painter's comma for Mereaud, painter's W for one of the Weiningers, painter's BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a agilder 1750-1800), incised 6.
- No date letter, painter's mark for Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche (recorded 1758-1801 as a painter speclizing in flowers, ground colors and patterns), incisded CT.
- Unmarked
- Blue interlaced Ls mark, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s 9. below for Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils aïné (specializig as a painter of flowers and patterns and as a gilder 1763-1801), conjoined vd. for Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Vandé père (active as a gilder at Vincennes and later also as a painter 1753-1779), incised 77H.
- No date letter, painter’s mark for Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche (recorded 1758-1801 as a painter specializing in flowers, ground colors and patterns), incised CT.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised 77.
- Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letters ff for 1783, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), incised 33.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised 77.
- Blue interlaced Ls, date letter V for 1774, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s comma for Charles-Louis Méreaud, le jeune (active 1756-1780 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), conjoined vd. for Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Vandé père (active as a gilder at Vincennes and later also as a painter 1753-1779), incised Hr.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised conjoined Cs as an X.
- Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter r for 1770, unidentifiable painter’s mark, incised CT.
-Interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter y over painter's mark LB for Le Bel, all in black with blue BD below, incised G.
-Interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter y over painter's mark LB for Le Bel, all in black with blue BD below, incised ƆC.
Two shallow bowls, bearing interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter V over painter's mark script E with four dots painter's mark possibly for Theodore Buteux and a rectangle grid mark - diameter 9 1/8 inches.
A cream jug (pot à lait ‘à trois pieds’ 1ère grandeur), date letters cc, circa 1780, painter's nb for Mme. Marie Jeanne Barbe (Buteux) Bunel - height 5 1/8 inches.
Four matched teacups and saucers (gobelets ‘Bouillard’ et soucoupes,1ère grandeur), date letters r/R, S/mm and dd for 1770, 1771/1789 and 1781 - height of teacups 2 1/2 inches; four matched saucers - diameter of saucers: 5 1/2 inches (1 example), 5 1/4 inches (2 examples), 5 3/8 inches (1 example). The cup with date letter r has a chip below footrim. The saucer with date letter R has a small unrestored chip to rim. One cup with date letter S having a chip and crack beneath the footrim, the other with date letter S having a tiny chip to the footring. Both saucers with date letters mm in good condition with light surface scratching and stacking wear. The cup and saucer with date letters dd in good condition.
Non-Sèvres Additions, Similarly Decorated
A hard paste porcelain plate, likely Paris, the border painted with feuille-de-choux issuing flower garlands, the center with a wreath, unmarked - diameter 9 3/4 inches.
12 plates painted with flower garlands suspended from blue feuille-de-choux cartouches, lacking design to center, marked Made in France in underglaze blue and white gilt basket mark to the undersides.
Two Derby ice pails, with shell handles, painted with loose bouquets within blue cabbage-leaf scrolls, with pentimento of a crowned script D mark to each - one example: Height 6 1/8 x diameter of opening 7 7/8 inches (width over handles 9 5/8 inches); second example: height 6 x diameter of opening 8 inches (width over handles 9 3/4 inches). The covers & liners lacking, one shell handle restored, with wear to gilt rims.
A Derby porcelain saucer, painted in blue with three feuille-de-choux leaves, with iron-red crown, crossed batons and D mark - diameter 5 3/4 inches.
CONDITION REPORT
The Sevres 'Trophy' plates with drilled indents in foot rim, does not pierce through and appears likely from production. Scattered light rubbing to gilt decoration along edges and some knife marks to center field consistent with age and use. The example with a water can with a firing crack to area near drilled indent, still "rings true" when tapped. The example with a fruit-basket painted at center with two areas of restoration to rim does not "ring-true" when tapped and restorations glow under UV light.
The example with bagpipe with two larger chips to foot rim. Example with bows, arrow and shield having a chip to foot rim. Example with crown and playbook with a chip to foot rim.
Fruit cooler with a tight firing crack to interior of body of base part. Does not "ring true" when tapped.
One of the saucers with a small chip to rim.
One of the teacups with a solid gilt-band at base, different from other examples and likely later gilding. Other teacup with a chip to footrim surrounding drilled indent.
Sevres shaped dish with a chip to foot rim.
One of the Sevres plates with a floral spray having a chip to foot rim.
Most of the Derby plates with a floral spray in center with tight crazing throughout. Does not "ring true" when tapped. One example with a larger area of regilding to rim, does not fluoresce under UV light. One example with a tight hairline crack.
One of the twelve associated plates with gilt mark on underside with a chip to footrim. Other example with a chip to rim of plate, chip with gilt overpainting. Other exampe with a flat flake to underside of rim.
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