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A Sèvres boat-shaped stand (bateau) from the service given by Louis XVI to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, circa 1785 image 1
A Sèvres boat-shaped stand (bateau) from the service given by Louis XVI to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, circa 1785 image 2
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A Sèvres boat-shaped stand (bateau) from the service given by Louis XVI to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, circa 1785

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sèvres boat-shaped stand (bateau) from the service given by Louis XVI to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, circa 1785

Painted by Hirel de Choisy in the centre with a spray roses on a maroon ground surrounded by a band of pearls and gilt borders, the blue-ground rim reserved with four cartouches enclosing roses and cornflowers surrounded by berried laurel garlands and flanked by gilt foliage, alternating with gilt floral and foliate motifs and gilt beaded bands, 29cm long, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter in blue (apparently JJ), painter's mark for Choisy (small restored chip to rim edge)

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Provenance:
Given by Louis XVI, King of France, to his brother-in-law, Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus, Archduke of Austria in 1786

See footnote to previous lot. It included four bateaux at a cost of 54 livres each, which are listed in the artists' lists as having been painted by Choisy on 30 October 1785 (David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services (2005, revised edition 2015), vol. VI, p.1393, artists' list 59).

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