Live Auction 7525From City Chic to Alpine Retreat, Holland Park and St. Moritz
A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE
Lot 126

A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE

1787-1790, INTERLACED L MARKS AND DATE LETTERS KK, LL, NN AND VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S AND INCISED MARKS

Closed12 September 2007

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A SEVRES LAVENDER-GROUND PART DESSERT-SERVICE
1787-1790, INTERLACED L MARKS AND DATE LETTERS KK, LL, NN AND VARIOUS PAINTER'S, GILDER'S AND INCISED MARKS
Painted with a band of meandering stylised fuchsia and exotic green, pink and yellow flowers and foliage between pale-blue bands gilt with entwined foliage and quatrefoils, the centre of the plates and dishes with a similar circular or oval medallion of the same flowers, comprising:
Three two-handled three-footed cylindrical ice pails, liners and covers A bottle coolers (seaux-à-bouteilles)
Two oval bottle coolers with integrated pierced liners (seaux-à-liqueurs ovales)
Three sauce tureens, covers and fixed stands
A circular bowl
Seven oval dishes (compotiers ovales)
Eight shell-shaped dishes (compotiers à coquilles)
Nine circular saucer dishes
Three shaped square dishes
Sixty various dinner plates (106)

Almost certainly purchased by Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Bath (1765-1837), Longleat, Wiltshire and by descent at Longleat.
Furniture, Porcelain and Silver from Longleat, Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 386.

Specialist note

A plate of the same pattern, from the Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, sold Christie's, Paris, 6th December 2001, lot 242.

This service is of the pattern commissioned from Sévres by Count Montmorin de Saint'Hérem; his name was thereafter associated with it. It was however evidently a stock pattern available to other clients.