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127 - 18th CENTURY SÈVRES TENDER PORCELAIN DISH, DATED 1788 Polych…
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18th CENTURY SÈVRES TENDER PORCELAIN DISH, DATED 1788 Polychrome decoration in the centre of a group of flowers and fruit and on the side of flowers and fruit in three reserves on a celestial blue background decorated with foliage, garlands and gold fleurons Marked : LL interlaced, letter-date LL for 1788, painter's mark Bouillat Engraved inventory number: I. 36 A few scratches in the decoration in the centre D. 24 cm (9 ½ in.) Provenance: Empaytaz and Company in 1794; Count Alexandre Dmitrievich Chérémètev ; Galerie Nicolier ; Former Charles-Otto Zieseniss collection, Christie's sale, Paris, 5-6 December 2001, lot 183. A soft-paste Sevres porcelain plate, 18th century, dated 1788, the painting by Bouillat This plate comes from the service delivered to the traders Empaytaz et Compagnie between 19 Vendémiaire and 15 Frimaire An III (10 October to 5 December 1794). Empaytaz et Compagnie were merchants and bought twenty-five dinner services and a large quantity of other items from the Sèvres manufactory between these two months for the considerable sum of 230,706 livres. The celestial blue service was the first in a series of 25 services sold to Empaytaz when the Republic liquidated Sèvres' stocks. Pierre-Fédécie Empaytaz, described as a merchant, rue et Section de la Réunion, n° 713, acted in particular as commercial agent in France for the King of Prussia. The service, whose decoration is described with a celestial blue background, a group of flowers and fruit, and a rich gold frieze, comprised 98 plates at 42 livres each. The service then passed into the hands of the Russian Sheremetev family and, at the beginning of the 20th century, into the hands of Count Alexander Dimitri Sheremetev, before being offered for sale around 1906 by the New Bond Street dealer Asher Wertheimer. A catalogue of the service was published on this occasion in which 97 of the 98 plates are mentioned (A. Wertheimer, Westheimer Gallery, Notes on the Historic Chérémèteff Collection of old Turquoise Sèvres porcelain, circa 1906, pp. 453-58, no. 176-392 and "The Chérémèteff Sèvres Porcelain", The Connoisseur, XV, August 1906, pp. 243-448). A large part of the service was bought in 1955 from Partridge in London by Stavros Niarcos and then reproduced in Les Porcelainiers du XVIIIe siècle français, Connaissance des Arts, Paris, 1964, pp. 222-224 (See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services, 2015, vol. II, n°94-4, pp. 1049-1053).
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About the sale Furniture and Works of Art - Evening Sale (Lot 1-170)
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