SÈVRES - Lot 224

Lot 224
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SÈVRES - Lot 224
SÈVRES Marie-Antoinette's pearls and barbels service plate in soft porcelain with polychrome decoration in the center of a bouquet of barbels and on the side of barbels and on the wing of semis of barbels between two braids with green background decorated with a row of pearls. Marked : LL interlaced, letter-date DD for 1781, mark of the painter Chappuis 18th century, 1781. D. 23,5 cm. A very small chip. Ordered in July 1781 and probably executed on samples provided by Michel Gabriel Commelin on the following August 7, the service with pearls and barbs was delivered to the Queen on January 2, 1782, during the exhibition at Versailles. It is mentioned in the archives of the Manufacture de Sèvres under the names Service de la Reine, Service à Perles pour la Reine, Service de la Reine à perle et Bordure merde d'oie or simply Service perles et barbeaux. It consisted of 295 pieces, worth 12,420 pounds, including 96 plates and 24 soup dishes worth 30 pounds each and 24 juice jars at 18 pounds each. The pearl and barbeaux service could have been delivered for Trianon where the Queen had two large dining rooms. Unlike the services with rich frieze, pearls and roses delivered to Marie Antoinette and Gustav III of Sweden in 1784 and then to the Countess d'Artois in 1789, the pearls and barbs service of 1781 was made exclusively for the Queen. The Château de Versailles National Museum has a plain plate, a tray of juice jars and a salad bowl on display at the Petit Trianon, a Bouret tray is in the Louvre Museum, and another plate is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. An important part of this service was in the collection of Lord Revelstoke (Christie's London sale, 28 June 1893, lots 373 and 374). The same set appeared again in public sale in 1976 (Etude Ader, Palais Galliera, 29 November 1976, lot 113), then Geneva, 19 March 1977, lot 3.
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