Lot n° 29
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 4 122EUR
18th century Sèvres hard porcelain saucer - Lot 29
18th century Sèvres hard porcelain saucer
Mark in pink with two interlaced and crowned L, letters date DD for 1781, mark of decorator for
Fallot
With polychrome and gold decoration in the center of the double L interlaced with a dolphin, a rose and a fleur-de-lys in a medallion with pink Taillandier decoration, the fall and the wing of three medallions with a rose and a fleur-de-lys connected by palms of two gold tones interrupted by vases with the antique above double L interlaced, braid with pink and gold Taillandier motives and gold net on the edge, small wear
D. 14 cm.
Notes:
A set of porcelain (mainly litron goblets and some bowls) was produced by the Royal Manufacture of Sèvres between November 1781 and March 1782 as Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue can note in their publication, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, page 135. In anticipation of the birth of the Dauphin, on October 22, 1781, the factory had asked Jean-Jacques Bachelier to create from September 1781 many drawings with allegories or various symbols to be used as models by the painters of the factory.
Mr. Christian Baulez, in his article on the acquisitions of the Palace of Versailles, in La Revue du Louvre, Le Plessis-Robinson, December 1992, 5/6, p.104, notes that on the occasion of the exhibition-sale at the Palace of Versailles for Christmas 1781, several goblets with this type of decoration were purchased by the Duke of Orleans (2), Madame Elisabeth (3) and King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette (3).
Other models of "litron" goblets are preserved in prestigious collections, such as the Louvre Museum (Inv. R.360), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (Inv.786-1882), or in the collections of the Pavlovsk Palace in Russia; and a "sunken" goblet and its lid in the collections of the Château de Versailles (Inv.V.5434).
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