A Sèvres Directoire Part-Dessert Service, Circa 1795
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October 18, 03:21 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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A Sèvres Directoire Part-Dessert Service, Circa 1795
painted with scattered purple myrtle sprigs at the center, with borders of trailing vines of pink forget-me-nots within narrow bleu nouveau bands gilt with laurel within gilt lines, comprising:
twenty dessert plates, assiettes unies, 9 in., 24.2 cm diam.;
four square dishes, compotiers 'carrés', 8 in., 21.2 cm wide;
four oval dishes, compotiers 'ovales', 10 in., 27.7 cm wide;
four octagonal dishes, compotiers 'octagones', 8.7/8 in., 22.8 cm wide;
and a bowl and cover, beurrier anglais, 7 in., 17.8 cm diam.,
various RF Sevres script marks in blue for République Française, painter's marks for Mme Bunel (active 1775-1817), Charles-Nicolas Butuex fils aîné or l’aîné (active 1763-1801), Mme Didier (active 1787-90, 93-98), Mlle Durosey l’aînée (active 1793-97, 1800-03), Mlle Durosey la jeune, (active 1797-98) and Mme Noualhier (active 1762-96). 34 pieces.
Christie's New York, October 23, 1998, lot 4
David Peters, 'The decoration and decorators of late-eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain in the Bowes Museum', The Burlington magazine, May 1991, vol. 133, no. 1058 pp. 307-308
David Peters, Sevres Plates and Service of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted 2005, Vol. V, pp. 1127-128, no. 96-14
The present service is discussed by Peters, op. cit., 1991, where the author notes that the decoration corresponds to design 'no. 154' in the in the album of plate designs retained at the Sèvres archives, which is annotated with the legend 'Pouvoir Executif 24 Frimaire an 4'. The legend on No. 154 denotes a service recorded in the Sèvres sales registers as sold on 25 Frimaire IV (16th December 1795) to the Directoire Exécutif, now more usually referred to as just the Directoire. It was described in the sales registers as a 24-place dessert service decorated with 'deux zônes Bleu avec desjolies frises d'or dessus une guirlande souvenir carmin au Pourtour des Pièces et fleurs de réponses sur le Blanc', and was one of nine services entered in the registers at the end of year IV in a list of porcelains delivered to the Directoire in the period 4 Brumaire IV to 1 Vendémiaire V (26th October 1795 to 22nd September 1796). (quoted, Peters, ibid., p. 307). Peters, ibid., illustrates a bottle cooler in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, p. 310, fig. 22. A plate from this service was in the Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection, sold, Christie's Paris, December 5-6, 2001, lot 276.
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