Sale 1157
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$6,000 – $8,000
Provenance (cream jug and matched cups and saucers):
The Hillingdon Collection
Adrian Sassoon, London, nos. 3659, 3738, 3739, 3737, and 3741, 13 June 2003 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with invoice)
Note:
Cf. D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol. II, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, pp. 361-362, no. 65-4 and Dalva Brothers – Parisian Taste in New York, Christie’s, New York, 21 October 2020, sale 19021, lot 206 for the trophy-decorated part service.
Please note that the contents of this lot have been updated since the catalog intitially went to print.
Trophy Service:
An ice pail, cover and liner (sceau à glace), date letter O
Ten plates (assiettes feuille-de-choux),1765-1766, date letter M to one, N to seven, one unmarked - diameter 9 5/8 inches (2 examples); diameter 9 7/8 inches (2 examples); diameter 10 inches (6 examples).
Non-Trophy Service
A salad bowl (saladier, 1ère grandeur), traces of an interlaced Ls mark - height 3 5/8 x diameter 10 1/2 inches.
A shaped dish, bearing interlaced Ls marked enclosing date letter F and incised CN 39932 - width 9 inches.
13 plates (assiettes feuille-de-choux) see below for marks and makers- diameter 9 1/2 inches (9 examples); diameter 9 5/8 inches (3 examples); diameter 9 3/8 inches (1 example).
MARKS:
- Date letter Z for 1777, painter's comma for Mereaud, painter's W for one of the Weiningers, painter's BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a agilder 1750-1800), incised 6.
- No date letter, painter's mark for Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche (recorded 1758-1801 as a painter speclizing in flowers, ground colors and patterns), incisded CT.
- Unmarked
- Blue interlaced Ls mark, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s 9. below for Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils aïné (specializig as a painter of flowers and patterns and as a gilder 1763-1801), conjoined vd. for Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Vandé père (active as a gilder at Vincennes and later also as a painter 1753-1779), incised 77H.
- No date letter, painter’s mark for Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche (recorded 1758-1801 as a painter specializing in flowers, ground colors and patterns), incised CT.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised 77.
- Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letters ff for 1783, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), incised 33.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised 77.
- Blue interlaced Ls, date letter V for 1774, painter’s MX: above for Mlle Marie-Claude-Sohie Xhrouuet (Secroix, recorded at Sèvres 1774-1788 as a gilder and as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s comma for Charles-Louis Méreaud, le jeune (active 1756-1780 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), conjoined vd. for Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Vandé père (active as a gilder at Vincennes and later also as a painter 1753-1779), incised Hr.
- Black interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Y for 1776, painter’s LB for Mme Marie Marguerite Gabrielle (Armand) Le Bel (recorded 1774-1790 and 1804-1805 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns), painter’s BD for François Baudouin père (recorded as a gilder 1750-1800), incised conjoined Cs as an X.
- Blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter r for 1770, unidentifiable painter’s mark, incised CT.
-Interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter y over painter's mark LB for Le Bel, all in black with blue BD below, incised G.
-Interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter y over painter's mark LB for Le Bel, all in black with blue BD below, incised ƆC.
Two shallow bowls, bearing interlaced Ls mark enclosing date letter V over painter's mark script E with four dots painter's mark possibly for Theodore Buteux and a rectangle grid mark - diameter 9 1/8 inches.
A cream jug (pot à lait ‘à trois pieds’ 1ère grandeur), date letters cc, circa 1780, painter's nb for Mme. Marie Jeanne Barbe (Buteux) Bunel - height 5 1/8 inches.
Four matched teacups and saucers (gobelets ‘Bouillard’ et soucoupes,1ère grandeur), date letters r/R, S/mm and dd for 1770, 1771/1789 and 1781 - height of teacups 2 1/2 inches; four matched saucers - diameter of saucers: 5 1/2 inches (1 example), 5 1/4 inches (2 examples), 5 3/8 inches (1 example). The cup with date letter r has a chip below footrim. The saucer with date letter R has a small unrestored chip to rim. One cup with date letter S having a chip and crack beneath the footrim, the other with date letter S having a tiny chip to the footring. Both saucers with date letters mm in good condition with light surface scratching and stacking wear. The cup and saucer with date letters dd in good condition.
Non-Sèvres Additions, Similarly Decorated
A hard paste porcelain plate, likely Paris, the border painted with feuille-de-choux issuing flower garlands, the center with a wreath, unmarked - diameter 9 3/4 inches.
12 plates painted with flower garlands suspended from blue feuille-de-choux cartouches, lacking design to center, marked Made in France in underglaze blue and white gilt basket mark to the undersides.
Two Derby ice pails, with shell handles, painted with loose bouquets within blue cabbage-leaf scrolls, with pentimento of a crowned script D mark to each - one example: Height 6 1/8 x diameter of opening 7 7/8 inches (width over handles 9 5/8 inches); second example: height 6 x diameter of opening 8 inches (width over handles 9 3/4 inches). The covers & liners lacking, one shell handle restored, with wear to gilt rims.
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