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Lot 214

A SÈVRES OVAL DISH FROM THE SERVICE FOR THE COMTESSE D'ARTOIS (COMPOTIER OVALE), DATED 1789

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

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A SÈVRES OVAL DISH FROM THE SERVICE FOR THE COMTESSE D'ARTOIS (COMPOTIER OVALE), DATED 1789

Painted by A.-T. Cornailles with a rose spray surrounded by a blue-ground pearl border and gilt dentil bands in the well, the rim with a band of alternating roses and cornflowers on a maroon ground interspersed with four similar medallions enclosing pansies between gilt beaded and laurel leaf borders, 27.4cm long, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter mm in purple, painter's mark for A.-T. Cornailles and gilder's mark for E.-G. Girard

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Provenance:
Purchased by Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, comtesse d'Artois, on 27 June 1789

This expensive service purchased by the comtesse d'Artois in June 1789 was meant for use by the comte and comtesse in their Versailles apartments, being described as pour Versailles [for Versailles] in the sale records. Due to the revolution however it is unlikely the service saw much use, as the comte and comtesse fled the country only three weeks after delivery. There were overall six compotier ovale at a price of 42 livres each. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2015), vol. IV, no. 89-3, for a full listing and discussion of the service.

Maria Theresa of Savoy was born in 1756 in Turin, the fifth child of Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. She married the Count of Artois, the youngest grandson of King Louis XV of France and the later King Charles X of France. They had four children together, two of which survived childhood. After the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, they left Versailles for Savoy. In 1791 her husband left Turin and moved to Trier, where his uncle was Archbishop-Elect. The comtesse stayed behind and the couple lived separated for the rest of their lives. She died in 1805 in Graz, Austria.

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