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Lot 153

A Sèvres tea service decorated en briques d'or, circa 1770

6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres tea service decorated en briques d'or, circa 1770

Painted with a wide band of gilt tooled brickwork between bands of gilt laurel wreaths on a blue pointillist ground, comprising a teapot and cover (théière 'calabre'), a slop bowl (jatte 'Hebert'), a sugar bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'Bouret'), a milk jug on three legs (pot à lait à trois pieds), 13 cups and 12 saucers, (gobelet 'Bouillard' et soucoupe), the teapot: 13.8cm high interlaced LL monograms, some pieces with incised marks (31)

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Provenance:
Property from the Collection of Dr. Johannes Ralph Lafrenz

A gobelet litron with alternating red and gilt brickwork is in the Royal Collection (see G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 2009, cat. no. 196, p. 792f.) The author notes that Svend Eriksen, writing about a similar gobelet litron with solid gilt bricks, dated 1770 at Woburn Abbey, points out that the first reference in the Sèvres factory sales' ledgers to this type of decoration dates from 1769. Geoffrey de Bellaigue however mentions a cup and saucer with gilt brick decoration dated 1767, which sold at Christie's, New York, 23 May 1995, lot 36. The author further underlines the popularity of the design by pointing out that Henry-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin, the minister responsible for the Sèvres manufactury, ordered a déjeuner à briques d'or in 1769 (op. cit. pp. 793).

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