Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 64*
A pair of Sèvres bleu-céleste ground glass coolers (seaux à verre) from a supplement to the Louis XV service, circa 1784
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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A pair of Sèvres bleu-céleste ground glass coolers (seaux à verre) from a supplement to the Louis XV service, circa 1784
Each side with a kidney-shaped reserve finely painted with flowers and fruit framed by an elaborate gilt cartouche of flowering branches, peacock feather eyes and husks, the scroll handles embellished in gilding, gilt-edged rims, 11.5cm high, one with remnants of LL monogram and painter's mark L. for Denis Levé, the other with gilder's mark # for Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux (both drilled through the base, some scratches to the sides) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Later supplement to the service for Louis XV, King of France, probably from 1784;
Purchased from Adrian Sassoon, London, in 2008
David Peters mentions two later supplements to the service listed in the sale records for 1784 and 1787 (see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services, 2005, revised edition 2015, vol. II, p. 288, no. 55-1). These supplements are traceable to purchases made by the marchand mercier François-Charles Bazin and may have been delivered to Louis XVI, the duc de Choiseul or a third party. The Artists' ledgers for the 1784 supplement (Artists' list 3) include four seaux à verre painted by Levé on 28 August 1788, and the kiln records for the same lists 12 seaux à verre with gilding by Chauvaux (David Peters, op cit., 2005, revised edition 2015, vol. VII, p. 1652), suggesting the glass coolers in the present lot belonged to the first of the two 1780s supplements.