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Sale 5214
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$2,500 – $3,500
Including items assembled from various Imperial services made for Château de Compiègne, Château des Tuileries, and Château de Fontainebleau; comprising twenty-three dinner plates, two soup bowls, two shall footed bowls, two low footed bowls, two teapots of varying sizes, a creamer, a sugar bowl, a serving bowl, two covered vegetable dishes, a teacup, a saucer, an ice cream bowl, and two small footed bowls with handles, all variously marked.
Dia: 9 ½ in. (largest dinner plates)
Enoch White Clark, founder of the financial firm E.W. Clark & Co., Philadelphia
Likely passed down to his son Clarence H. Clark, Sr. of “Chestnutwold”
Thence by descent to the present consignor.
lot 108: showing signs of expected wear and some loss to gilding commensurate with age and use; saucer: also marked “Limoges/ R L/ France” in addition to “M. Impie. de Sevres” to underside, with old staple repairs to breaks along edge, with one piece missing; tea cup: also marked “France” in addition to “M. Impie. de Sevres” to underside; footed bowl: with one area of chipping along edge- a couple “chips” re-glued in place; one footed dish / tazza: with chip along foot; other footed dish / tazza: tiny flake / chip along foot; one two-handled dish: with several hairline cracks along rim; sugar bowl: with chip to foot, accompanied by a lid that is presently broken in half; two-handled pail: with tiny chip to foot rim; three plates: repaired / re-glued chip / break to underside of foot rim, one with small scratch along rim; another plate: with hairline crack along rim; another plate: chip / loss along rim; several plates with chips / losses to underside of foot rim
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