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353 - Imperial Manufactory of Sèvres Plate for Napoleon I's servic…
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Imperial Manufactory of Sèvres Plate for Napoleon I's service at Rambouillet Sèvres hard porcelain with gold decoration in the centre of a rose window and on the side a frieze of capers. The red stamp of the Sèvres imperial factory has been deliberately removed. Empire period, 1808. Diam. 23.5 cm. (chips, minor wear to the gilding) Provenance: On 19 August 1808, the Sèvres manufactory delivered on behalf of the Emperor to the Palais de Rambouillet a service described Capraire gold frieze that had entered the manufactory's sales shop on 9 March 1808 and 4 May 1808 (Arch. Sèvres, Vu1 f° 56, and f° 58v and Vbb1, f° 65). It consisted of a starter service with 40 soup plates, 8 navette butter dishes, 6 stemmed salad bowls, 16 juice jars and 4 melonnières. The dessert service consisted of 144 dinner plates at 9 francs each, 8 compote bowls, 2 sugar bowls and 4 vase-shaped iceboxes. Another part of the service was bought by Martial Daru on 7 March 1808 for his personal use (Vz1, f° 226). The obliterated marks under our plates most certainly refer to the Emperor's service at Rambouillet. During the first Restoration, between April 1814 and March 1815, a certain number of Sèvres porcelains present in the imperial residences, in particular the plates from the Quartiers Généraux service kept at the Tuileries, were sent to the Sèvres manufactory in order to have the imperial mark of the Sèvres manufactory ground and sometimes covered with two large interlaced Ls engraved and painted in black.
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
Lot description modified on 06/10/2026 at 10:06 AM
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Michel Bury and Henri du Cray
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