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A Sèvres bleu céleste-ground monteith, circa 1768
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £21,500 inc. premium
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A Sèvres bleu céleste-ground monteith, circa 1768
Seau crénelé, each side reserved with a gilt-edged oval panel painted by Antoine-Joseph Chappuis with a scene depicting two birds in a landscape below gilt flower swags, titled on the underside in black: 'pie bleu des indes/ pie de D'anemarc' and 'petit ManaKuin/ La pompadour', gilt-edged foliate scroll handles, gilt-edged rims, 29.5cm across handles; 12.7cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter P and painter's mark 'cp' in blue, incised P, applied paper labels, black-painted Fitzwilliam Museum inventory number C.38-1961
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, lot 747;
Louis C.G. Clarke Collection, Cambridge (by October 1948);
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, inv. no. C.38-1961 (bequeathed by the above in 1960);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent
From the service made in 1768 and 1769, probably for Nikolai Konstantinovich Chotinski, Russian chargé d'affaires to France from 24 December 1767 to January 1774, and subsequently from 1780 to 1782; for a discussion of the service and its components, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005), II, no. 69-2. Twenty-four plates and two seau à glace were purchased on 9 March 1769 by M. de Cotensky, whom Peters identifies as probably having been Nikolai Konstantinovich Chotinski, the Russian chargé d'affaires to France. He assumes the purchase was a supplement to an earlier service purchase on 5 November 1768 by an unnamed cash buyer. According to the records this earlier purchase included six seau crénelé at a price of 198 livres.
It seems likely that part of the service, including four seau crénelé, ended up in the 19th century collection of Count A. D. Sheremetev and was subsequently offered for sale in London in 1906 by the Bond Street dealer, Asher Wertheimer.
The bird subjects on the service, all titled on the undersides and bases, are mainly after ornithological engravings in George Edwards, A Natural History of Birds, Vols. 1-4 (1743-51), partially published in France in 1745 and 1748 as Histoire naturelle des divers oiseaux.