Lot n° 364
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 20 480EUR
MANUFACTURE VINCENNES-SÈVRES
Hors d'oeuvre dish in soft porcelain, the edge with knotted ribbons in light relief. Polychrome decoration of a bouquet of flowers and fruits in the center and four reserves decorated with flowers surrounded by scrolls and flowers in gold on a bluish green background.
Marks LL interlaced, letter date D for 1756-1757. Painter Pierre-Antoine Méreaud l'ainé, active in the factory from 1754 to 1791 and x in hollow
H : 23 cm x W : 27,3 cm (A small chip on the edge, a chip, slight lacks to the gilding, a scratch on the reverse)
Provenance:
Service offered by Louis XV to King Frederick V of Denmark and Nor vège (1723-1766).
In 1757, King Louis XV thanked King Frederic V for having offered him a stallion of the famous F rederiksborg breed and sent him a sumptuous porcelain service with a green background. This service composed of approximately 264 pieces, of which the color with bluish green bottom newly created with the manufacture, had cost the important sum of 34542 livres (Courajod, Book-Journal of Lazare Duvaux, n° 1873).
In a letter of April 1757 preserved in the Archives of the Ministry of External Relations addressed by Antoine-Louis de Rouillé, Minister of Foreign Affairs (25-7-1754 - 25-6 1757) to President Jean-François Ogier d'Enonville, French ambassador (9-9-1754 - 26- 1766) in Copenhagen, he announces the gift of Louis XV in these terms: "It is with great pleasure that I announce to you that the King carried of the best grace of the world to order a service of Porcelains of Vincennes for the King of Dank; it will not be color of Lapis because one has just invented a new green which is much more beautiful and that Its Mté wants to give the first ones to its Mté D anoise..... but it will take at least 4 months for the service intended for the King of Dannemarck to be ready to be sent".
Lazare-Duvaux, Parisian merchant-merchant in his Livre-Journal for the period of sale from July 1, 1757 to January 1, 1758 mentions a service with the background color "green" registered in the sale n° 3068 of March 7, 1758 and then delivered to the abbot, count of Bernis, new minister of the Foreign Affairs. The service was presented to King Frederic V on April 25, 1758 (except for the double saltcellars which were delivered a little later because of their unfinished gold mounting).
A large part of this service is now kept in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
In the description of the forms that made up the service, twelve hors d'oeuvre dishes are mentioned at 120 livres each, including oval dishes with gadroons, ribbons, and cordonets, three of which are now in the Hermitage Museum.
A dish of this form with ribbons, of which the factory preserves a mold as well as a drawing by Duplessis, is reproduced in the work of Tamara Préaud, Antoine d'Albis, Ed.Adam Biro 1991. The porcelain of Vincennes, n° 113, p.150.
Bibliography :
- David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Ser vices of the 18th Centur y, 2015, Vol. II, No. 57-2, pp 301-305.
- Nina Birioukova and Natalia Kazakevitch. Sevres porcelain of the eighteenth century. Catalog of the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 2005 pp 115-128.
- The duke of Luynes in his memoirs mentions the service carried out in Vincennes and Sèvres.
- Memoirs of the Duke of Luynes on the court of Louis XV (1735-1758), 1860-65, vol XVI page 328.
- Versailles and the Royal Tables in Europe - XVIIth - XIXth centuries ", RMN 1993 Dorothé e Guillemé Brulon p. 184.
- Tamara Préaud, Antoine d'Albis, Ed.Adam Biro 1991. The porcelain of Vincennes
- Connaissance des Arts n°500 Service diplomatique Nov. 1993 pp 152- 161
Pieces of the service passed in public sales:
- Two oval dishes : Sotheby's. April 6, 2011 lot 128.
- Round bowl : Christie's. November 17, 2011 lot 98.
- Glass bucket: Christie's. 24 October 2013 lot 516
- Liquor bucket: Hôtel Drouot. Etude Doutrebente 18 October 2019 lot 63.
- Octagonal dish: Sotheby's sale. June 4, 2020 lot 143.
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