Sevres - Lot 276

Lot 276
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Sevres - Lot 276
Sevres Two egg cups in soft porcelain of the service with pearls and barbels of the Queen Marie-Antoinette with polychrome decoration of barbels between two braids decorated with pearls on green bottom. Marked: LL interlaced, letter-date DD for 1781, mark of the painters Madame Bunel on one and Melle Armand on the other. 18th century, 1781. H. 4.3 cm. Ordered in July 1781 and certainly 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 of "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, for a total of 12,420 livres, including 96 plates and 24 soup plates worth 30 livres each and 24 egg cups at 9 livres each. The service à perles et barbeaux could have been delivered for Trianon where the Queen had two large dining rooms. An important part of this service was in the collection of Lord Revelstoke (Christie's London sale, 28 June 1893, lots 373 and 374). This same set appeared again in public sale in 1976 (Etude Ader, Palais Galliera, 29 November 1976, lot 113, then Geneva, 14 May 1977, lot 384). C. Baulez, Vers un Retour des Sèvres, Revue du Louvre, December 1991, pp. 69-70 and D. Peters, Sevres Plates and Services of the 18th century, 2005, vol. III, n°81-13, pp. 645-646. For an egg cup of this service sold at public auction, see the Pescheteau-Badin sale, 11 April 2011, lot 71.
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