Lot Details
Lot 236
Sevres Porcelain Partial Dessert Service
Dated 1808
Comprising a pair of verrieres, four oval serving plates and twelve deep plates, the oval monteith with further polychrome floral decoration flanked by stylized leafage handles, each plate with a central rosette and green border with gilt leafage highlight border, iron red stamped factory mark and underglaze green decorators and gilders mark. Length of monteith 15 inches (38 cm), length of serving plates 11 1/2 inches (29 cm), diameter of plates 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm).
Provenance:
This partial service is part of a large service produced by Sevres in 1808-9 for Prince Borghese and refered to by the Sevres factory as the Service d'Italie'. It was sold in the Catalogue Des Objects d'Art et d'Ameublement qui Garnissent le Grand Appartement au Premier Etage du Palais du Prince Borghese a Rome in 1892 as lot 851. Tres Beau Service de Table en Vieux - Sevres, comprising trente-six assiettes a soupe, cent vingt-six assiettes, dont vingt-et-une sans couronne, quatre rafraichissoirs en forme de vase a pied et a anses, quatre seaux a vin de champagne, quatre seaux idem plus petits, huit verrieres a bords creneles, quatre fruitieres ajourees, huit fruitieres ajourees plus petites, quatre plats a glace ovales, quatre saladiers, quatre idem plus petits, seize fruitieres, quatre saucieres, quatre sucriers a plateau adherent, onze raviers a plateau adherent, and vingt-sept petits pots a creme.
Purchased by Bradford de Wolf at this auction, then by descent in the de Wolf family.
Estate of Princess Dorota Drucka Lubecka (Dorothy
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