Lot n° 48
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 2 600EUR
SÈVRES, 18th century, 1786 - Lot 48
SÈVRES, 18th century, 1786
Tray for ice cups named footed saucer, in soft porcelain of circular form with lobed edge resting on a pedestal, with polychrome decoration in the center of a bouquet of violets and barbs in a circular medallion surrounded by volubilis, the wing decorated with a garland of volubilis between two braids with purple background decorated with gold beads.
Marked: LL interlaced, letter-date II for 1786, mark of painter of Jean-Joseph-Philippe Boucot son
On the reverse side a label bearing the handwritten inscription (...) Sèvres (1786) from the service
of the castle of Sirrenberg.
A chip restored on the edge.
D. 22,5 cm
This footed saucer comes from this service, whose decoration is described Zone violete and Volubilis in the registers of the Sèvres factory. It appears on the register of payments of the painters in November 1786 under the name of Madeleine Bouvet. The other footed saucer went on sale at PIASA on June 11, 2014, lot
152. Part of this service was sold at Christie's in New York (25 October 2005, lot, 141), two
plates and an ice bucket were sold at PIASA (December 5, 2005, lot 436 and November 29, 2012, lot 178).
For a study of this service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, vol. IV, no. 87-12, pp. 845-846.
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