Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 82*
A Sèvres green-ground sugar bowl and cover (sucrier ovale à compartiments), dated 1757
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A Sèvres green-ground sugar bowl and cover (sucrier ovale à compartiments), dated 1757
Of quatrelobe form, reserved with two shaped panels painted with flowers and fruit within gilt floral scrollwork cartouches incorporating trellis panels, the cover similarly decorated, applied with gilt-edged, entwined handles with foliate terminals, gilt dentil borders to the rims, 15cm across; 11.5cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter D in blue (scattered minor wear to gilding) (2)
Footnotes
Four sucriers ovales were included in the Frederik V of Denmark service in 1757; for an example see see Nina Birioukova and Natalia Kazakevitch, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, The Hermitage Museum, 2005, p. 128, no. 128. The green ground on known pieces of the service is a stronger shade of green, so it is unlikely the present lot was part of this service. David Peters notes that other green-ground sucriers must have been sold within this period, including one mentioned in Lazare Duvaux's sale records of the second half of 1757 as a "sucrier vert nouveau" (David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services, vol. II, 2005, revised edition 2015, p. 303, no. 57-2).