Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 70*
A Sèvres green-ground triangular stand (plateau triangle corbeille à jour) from the service for the comte de Choiseul, dated 1759
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £9,000
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A Sèvres green-ground triangular stand (plateau triangle corbeille à jour) from the service for the comte de Choiseul, dated 1759
Painted by Charles Buteux (l'aîné) with a trophy and a wreath made up of flowers and grapes surrounded by gilt floral and foliate scrollwork, the pierced rim with acanthus motifs surrounded by foliate scrolls, all heightened in gilding, 22cm across, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter F in blue, painter's mark for Buteux (l'aîné) (very minor scattered surface wear)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Delivered to M Le Comte De Choiseul, most likely César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul-Chevigny, later duc de Choiseul-Praslin, on 16 May 1759;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1963, lot 90 (part)
The Property of the late Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, sold Christie's London, 9 and 12 October 1995, lot 100 (part)
For a full listing of the service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vo. II, 2005, revised edition 2015, pp. 317-318, no. 59-1. The service included four corbeilles triangle at 168 livres each.
César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul-Chevigny (1712-1785), was the cousin of Étienne François, the duc de Choiseul-Stainville (1719-1785), and the ambassador to Austria between 1759 and 1761. From 1761 to 1766 he replaced his cousin as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and between 1766 and 1770 filled the role of Secretary of State for the Navy, when his cousin Étienne returned to his role in the department of Foreign Affairs. After their protector, Madame de Pompadour, died in 1764, the positions of the Choiseul cousins started wavering and César-Gabriel subsequently withdrew from public service in 1770.
A similar tray was sold from the Dimitri Mavrommatis Collection at Sotheby's London, 8 July 2008, lot 57, and another, the other formerly in the collection of the late Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, sold at Christie's Paris, 7 November 2012, lot 31.