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A very rare Sèvres shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille) from the service for Madame Du Barry, circa 1770 image 1
A very rare Sèvres shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille) from the service for Madame Du Barry, circa 1770 image 2
A very rare Sèvres shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille) from the service for Madame Du Barry, circa 1770 image 3
Lot 204

A very rare Sèvres shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille) from the service for Madame Du Barry, circa 1770

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Sèvres shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille) from the service for Madame Du Barry, circa 1770

The centre painted with a gilt-edged circular medallion depicting a seated putto with attributed of Geometry, within a band of laurel leaves with berries, the rim with a gilt-edged turquoise fond Taillandier, reserved with four oval joined oval panels with trailing berried laurel leaves, two enclosing gilt-edged trophies emblematic of Geometry, 22.2cm across, interlaced LL monogram in blue (section of handle restuck with old restoration to repair)

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Provenance:
Purchased by Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, on 1 September 1770;
Private Collection, U.K.

The service was purchased by Madame Du Barry on 1st September 1770 and is included in the inventory of 24 August 1794 of the contents of the château de Louveciennes. The 1770 sales ledger simply lists 6 compotiers at a price of 72 livres each; the 1794 inventory specifies that the service contained two each of the compotiers ovales, carrés and coquilles. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005), II, pp. 435f., for a discussion of the service, of which twelve plates are in the Royal Collection (acquired by George IV, see G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain the the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (2009), II, cat. no. 156).

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