From the Dalva Brothers Collection
A Sèvres Porcelain Bleu Céleste-Gound Footed Tray, 'plateau de tasse à glace' or 'soucoupe à pied', 1787
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Description
painted at the center with a bunch of fruit and flowers reserved within in a chased gilt band, with a band of interlaced foliate scrolls suspending leafy garlands, gilt-edged rim, interlaced LL mark in blue, flanked by date letters KK for 1787, and painter's mark Y for Edmè-Francois Bouillat père (1758-1810)
Diameter 8 7/8 in.
22.7 cm
From the service fond Bleu Céleste, Groupe de fleurs et fruits, delivered to Citoyen Empaytaz & Compagnie in 1794;
Chérémètev Family in the 19th century;
Comte Alexander Dmitry Chérémètev (1859-1931) in the early 20th century;
Christie’s, New York, 2 March 2005, lot 306A
David Peters, Sevres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted 2015, vol. V, pp 1049-1053.
The present serving dish, used to display tasses à glace, was part of a large bleu céleste-ground Sèvres service acquired by Citoyen Empaytaz & Compagnie in Year III (1794), between Vendémiaire and Frimaire (October-December). The service has acquired its present name from the Chérémèteff family who owned a substantial part of the service in the 19th century. Peters, op.cit, lists that a part of this service, when owned by Comte Alexander Dmitry Chérémètev, was brought to London in or around 1906, and was catalogued by the dealer Asher Wertheimer, Notes on the Historic Chérémètev Collection of old Turquoise Sèvres Porcelain. The catalogue entry described the service as 'turquoise blue ground decorated in gold, with Vitruvian scroll ornaments, and further enriched with detached sprays of miniature flowers'. An impression of the size is given in the catalogue entry by the inclusion of 97 plates, which also lists three plateaux for pot à jus, and two soucoupe à pied, a reference possibly to the present piece.
Recent auction sales from this service include a plate from the Zieseniss Collection, Christie's, Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 183 and two plates, sold, Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 24. Two pot à jus, most recently were offered at Pescheteau Badin, Paris, 18 November 2023, lot 188. A portion of this service is illustrated in Serge Gauthier, Les Porcelainiers du 18ème siècle français',Connaissance des Arts, Paris 1964, pp. 223-24.
Monsieur Edmé-Françoise Bouillat is recorded as a flower painter at Sèvres from 1758-1810.
Related Literature
'The Chérémèteff Sèvres Porcelain', The Connoisseur, Vol. XV, May-August 1906, pp. 243-48
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