Property from a Private West Coast Collection.
A Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Bleu Lapis-Ground Monteiths, Seaux Crénelés, Circa 1765
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painted with four landscape vignettes, one monteith showing a pair waterbirds nesting eggs at the waterside, the verso panel with birds and chicks in woodland, the other monteith with a similar scenes of waterbirds with chicks, and a hen nursing an egg with a cockerel by a rustic fence in woodland, within elaborate gilt foliate scroll cartouches, gilt-dentil rims, one with interlaced LL marks containing date letter M for 1765, painter's mark of a dagger for Étienne Evans, the other with indistinct incised mark to inner edge of footrim, possibly GN
width across handles 12 1/2 in., 31.8 cm
Probably from the service delivered on 12 April 1765 to Philip (1720-1765), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1748-1765), husband of Louise-Élisabeth of France (1720-1759), Duchess of Parma (1748-1759), daughter of King Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska of France;
Ferdinando I (1751-1802), Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1765-1802);
Collection Paul Reinach (d. 1963), Paris, probably from his father Theodore Reinach (d. 1928);
Jacques Seligmann & Cie. Paris;
Acquired from the above by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters in 1929 for $6,000;
To Sadie Walters on Henry’s death in 1931;
Sale of the contents of her New York house, Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 3 May 1941, lot 1365;
Acquired at the sale by Knoedler;
Acquired from the above Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Blaustein;
Property of a New Jersey Private Collector, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 31 October 1981, lot 103;
Christie's East, New York, 19 April, 1990, lot 167;
Property from the Collection of James Grafstein, Stair, Hudson, 24 April, 2024, lot 208 (as later decorated, part);
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Georges Bal, Anciennes Porcelaines, Vincennes et Sèvres, p. 15, illus. (according to 1941 catalogue entry);
David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th century, Vol. II, Little Berkhamsted 2005, pp. 365-67 and 407-07.
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