Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A FRENCH POTTERY COMPOSITE 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE
Lot 204

A FRENCH POTTERY COMPOSITE 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE

LATE 19TH CENTURY, PRINTED CRIEL AND LUNEVILLE MARKS, VARIOUS RETAILER'S AND IMPRESSED MARKS

Closed30 September 2014

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A FRENCH POTTERY COMPOSITE 'SERVICE ROUSSEAU' PART DINNER-SERVICE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, PRINTED CRIEL AND LUNEVILLE MARKS, VARIOUS RETAILER'S AND IMPRESSED MARKS
Printed and painted with bold studies of fish, birds, insects and flowers within blue feuilles-de-choux borders, comprising:
An oval soup-tureen and cover
A circular vegetable-tureen and cover
A large lobed circular bowl
A lobed circular footed bowl
Six low footed comports in sizes
Two oval double lipped sauceboats on fixed stands
A large oval serving-dish
An oval fish serving-dish
Four small lobed oval dishes
Five crescent-shaped dishes
A two-handled jar and cover
One hundred and fifty-one dinner-plates
Thirty-four soup-plates
Thirty seven luncheon-plates
Eight coffee-cups and eight saucers
The circular bowl 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm.) wide
The small lobed oval dishes 8 in. (20 cm.) wide

Part with Félix Marcilhac, Cabinet d'expertises, according to paper labels

Specialist note

The 'Service Rousseau' is considered to be one of the earliest interpretations of Japonisme in French decorative arts. Inspired by Hokusai's woodcuts that Felix Bracquemond had 'discovered' in 1856, the service was exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Exhibitions of 1867, 1878 and 1889, the London Exhibition of 1871 and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Bracquemond's engravings for this service were so successfully reproduced that the designs were continued into the 20th Century.

For a discussion of this service see Philippe Thibaut et al, 'Art, Industrie et Japonism, Le Service 'Rousseau', Exhibition Catalogue, Musée d'Orsay, 7 March - 26 June 1988, and Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Fäience et Porcelaine de Paris, Dijon, 1995, p. 209, pl. 201 E.