CIRCA 1815-1820, CUP WITH BLUE STENCILLED MARKS, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

细节

A Sevres (hard-paste) gilt-ground part coffee-service
Circa 1815-1820, cup with blue stencilled marks, various incised marks
Finely painted with portraits of illustrious Frenchmen named below within gilt ciselé cartouches flanked by elaborate white, pale-grey and pale-yellow anthemion scrolls, comprising:

An urn-shaped coffee-pot and cover (Theiere Asseli), with waisted neck and large loop handle, the sides with portraits of VOLTAIRE. and BUFFON., on a waisted foot with ciselé stiff-leaf ornament, the flat cover with ciselé stiff-leaves about a cone finial (handle broken through and restuck, chipping to flange inside neck, chip to flange)

An urn-shaped two-handled sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre à pied anse volute), the sides painted with portraits of J.J.ROUSSEAU. and MONTESQUIEU., on a similarly decorated waisted foot, the cover with similarly decorated flat top, waisted sides and cone finial

A flared cabinet-cup and saucer (tasse jasmin), the cup with loop handle, fluted foot and painted with a portrait of DUCIS, the saucer with gilt husks and arrow-heads at the well about a central gilt flowerhead, the gilt ground border with white, pale-grey and pale-yellow tulips and roundels (cup with chip to footrim)
The coffee-pot 8 in. (20.5 cm.) high (3)

注意事项

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拍品专文

The gilt decoration is inspired by the designs of Percier et Fontaine.
François Voltaire, the famous dramatist, poet and writer was born in Paris on 24th November 1694 and died on 30th May 1778. The illustrious naturalist George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was born in Burgundy on 7th September 1707 and died in Paris on 16th April 1788. Jean Jacques Rousseau, the writer and philosopher who notably wrote Emile, was born in Geneva on 28th June 1712 and died on 2nd July 1778. The writer Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, was born at the Château de la Brède near Bordeaux on 18th January 1689 and died in Paris on 10th February 1755. Jean François Ducis, the dramatic poet who adapted Shakespeare into French was born at Versailles in 1733 and died there in 1816.