Lot n° 130
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
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: 9 200EUR
SEVRES Imperial Manufacture, Service of Napoleon,... - Lot 130 - A.Blanchy | E.Lacombe - Bordeaux Chartrons - Bordeaux Enchères
SEVRES Imperial Manufacture, Service of Napoleon,
Compotier round foot, with dolphins in porcelain pedestal decorated with four golden dolphins in cookie. The wing of the basin with red background is decorated with a frieze of gold foliage between gold nets, the outer face with blue background agate and gold nets. Large gold net on the edge of the base.
Marked in red with the stamp " de Sèvres 1809 " under the heel. Handwritten inscription in black under the heel " This porcelain was used for a long time for the lunch of the Emperor Napoleon I " and " Homage to ... ". (illegible).
Early 19th century, dated 1809
Part of the stamped mark scratched above. Incised cross under the heel. A chip on the base. Chipping in the gold fillet at the edge of the heel and wear inside the compotier.
Diameter : 23,5 cm ; Height. 8,8 cm
Cf: This fruit bowl is part of the "Service de dessert marli rouge couronne de fleurs sur fond or papillons" intended for the castle of Compiègne but delivered between October 7, 8 and 18, 1809 for Napoleon at Fontainebleau. This service which included 8 compotiers with dolphin foot. It probably accompanied the Emperor during his exile on the island of Elba in April 1814, as it is absent from an inventory drawn up after his departure.
Detail of the order
-180 dinner plates
-36 plates with red marli for mounted plates
-8 compotiers with dolphin foot
-8 compotiers without dolphin
4 Hebe-shaped bowls
-4 sugar bowls with eagle head
-2 ice buckets with elephant heads and flowers
-2 id. Olympic shape, with figure
-4 baskets jasmine shape
-4 low baskets
Total : 18 580 francs
Are added
-4 sugar bowls with olympic dolphin same decoration as the previous service
Total : 1400 francs
Examples of similar inspiration
-A compotier of the same decoration is preserved in the National Museum of the Castle of Fontainebleau (inv. F2013.7).
-Part of the service "red marli crown of flowers on gold butterfly background" that belonged to the Rockefeller collection was sold by Christie's in New York on May 9, 2018 (lot 118).
Bibliography
-Leprince (Camille), Napoleon I & Sèvres. L'art de la porcelaine au service de l'Empire, Paris, Feu et Talent, 2016, p. 72 and p. 278 (n°142).
-Archives of the Manufacture de Sèvres, Cotes-Y 22, Tariff for - for the year, pl. 4, fig. 5.
-Archives of the Manufacture de Sèvres, Cote Vu 1, f°83v.
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