Sevres - Lot 271

Lot 271
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Sevres - Lot 271
Sevres Tray for ice cups named footed saucer in soft porcelain of circular form with lobed edge resting on a pedestal, with polychrome decoration in the center of a bouquet of violets and barbs in a circular medallion surrounded by volubilis, the wing decorated with a garland of volubilis between two braids with purple background decorated with gold beads. Marked: LL interlaced, letter-date II for 1786, mark of painter of Jean-Joseph-Philippe Boucot fils. 18th century, 1786. D. 22,5 cm. On the reverse side a label with the handwritten inscription () Sèvres (1786) from the service of the castle of Sirrenberg. A chip restored on the edge. This footed saucer comes from a service whose decoration is described Zone violete et Volubilis, in the registers of the Sèvres factory. It appears on the register of payments of the painters in November 1786 under the name of Madeleine Bouvet. This service was delivered on November 8, 1787 to Hans Konrad Hottinger, a Parisian banker, associated in 1786 with Denis de Rougemont. The service included two trays for ice cream cups at 30 livres each. The other footed saucer went on sale at PIASA on June 11, 2014, lot 152. Part of this service went on sale at Christie's in New York (October 25, 2005, lot, 141), two plates were sold at PIASA (December 5, 2005, lot 436), and an ice bucket at PIASA (November 29, 2012, lot 178). For a study of this service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, vol. IV, no. 87-12, pp. 845-846.
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