Sophie von der Goltz
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The Richard Deacon Collection
Lot 89*
A rare Sèvres rose marbré écuelle, cover and stand (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale') painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin, dated 1762
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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A rare Sèvres rose marbré écuelle, cover and stand (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale') painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin, dated 1762
Finely painted by Dodin with trophies emblematic of the arts, sciences, classical and contemporary literature and military prowess, within shaped, gilt-edged reserves, the rose marbré ground consisting of trellis panels surrounded by scrollwork and caillouté pattern, heightened in gilding, the entwined branch handles embellished in gilding, the stand: 18.5cm across; the écuelle: 14.5cm across handles; 10.5cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter I, painter's marks K for Dodin (the ecuelle and cover restored) (3)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Purchased from E & H Manners, London, in 1996 (the stand)
Rose marbré (marbled) or chiné (Chinese cracked ice) ground decoration was only produced at Sèvres for a very short period between 1760 and 1763. It was a very time-consuming and intricate technique. The pink ground was fired first, then a blue coating added which was partially scraped off once dry, giving the marbled effect you can see in the present lot, and the gilding was added last (Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, Vol.II, 1988, p.594).
Madame de Pompadour owned a number of rose marbré or chiné pieces, see Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres porcelain, Vol.II, 2021, pp.1001-1005, 1052 and 1058-1059.
It is rare for Dodin to decorate an entire piece solely with trophies. More typically, such motifs appeared as secondary cartouches accompanying other subjects, such as putti or landscapes (see Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Charles Nicolas Dodin et la Manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres, 2012, p.51, no. 14, for a vase with putti and trophies). An example of a piece fully decorated with trophies is the pedestal base for a biscuit bust in the British Museum, London (see inv. no. 1948,1203.5). A plateau carré with a trophy painted by Dodin was in the Hôtel Lambert Collection, sold Sotheby's Paris, 13 October 2022, lot 567.