Sophie von der Goltz
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The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 77*
A Sèvres green-ground bottle cooler (seau à bouteille) from the Frederik V of Denmark service, dated 1757
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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A Sèvres green-ground bottle cooler (seau à bouteille) from the Frederik V of Denmark service, dated 1757
Reserved on each side with a shaped panel painted by Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles with a spray of flowers and fruit, within a gilt scrollwork frame with flowers and trellis panels, four gilt flower branches to the footrim, the rims and shell-moulded handles edged in gilding, 18.8cm high interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter D in blue, painter's mark for Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles (some wear to gilding, minor rim chips)
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Provenance:
Probably purchased by Lazare Duvaux between 1757 and 1758, supplied to Louis XV and delivered to the abbé comte de Bernis, ministre des affaires étrangères (Minister for Foreign Affairs) as intermediary for the gift to Frederik V, King of Denkmark and Norway;
Formerly collection Adda;
Vente Mes Maurice et Philippe Rheims, Paris, Palais Galliéra, les 29-30 November and 1-3 December 1965, lot 942;
Collection Jacques et Henriette Schumann, sold Christie's, Paris, 30 September 2003, lot 343
The service was in response to a gift of stallions, according to surviving correspondence, where it is described as Porcelaines de Vincennes. It was made up of green-ground pieces with a variety of decoration: flowers, fruit and flowers, birds and also figural scenes, and included six seaux à bouteille. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services, 2005; revised edition 2015, vol. II, pp. 301-305, no. 57-2, for a full discussion of the service and mention of the present piece.