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A Sèvres butter dish on a stand and cover from the service originally made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, 1783 image 1
A Sèvres butter dish on a stand and cover from the service originally made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, 1783 image 2
Lot 192

A Sèvres butter dish on a stand and cover from the service originally made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, 1783

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Sèvres butter dish on a stand and cover from the service originally made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau, 1783

Beurrier, painted in pink camaieu with trailing berried flower garlands hanging from bows, gilt dentil borders to the rims, 20.4cm diam., interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter ff in blue, painter's mark for Claude-Antoine Tardy (2)

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Provenance:
Purchased by Louis XVI as a supplement for the service originally made for Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau in 1757

The original service was bought by Louis XV in the second half of 1757 via Lazare Duvaux. The service remained in use in the royal household at the Château de Fontainebleau and various supplements were ordered until 1787. The present lot is part of a group of pieces that were added to the service in 1783 by Louis XVI, which included two beurriers.
A selection of the service is now back in the collection of the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, including a beurrier dated 1786.

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