Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 77
A rare Sèvres gold-mounted bleu-céleste ground bonbonnière in the shape of an egg (oeuf), circa 1763-64
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Raphael Machiels
Associate Specialist
A rare Sèvres gold-mounted bleu-céleste ground bonbonnière in the shape of an egg (oeuf), circa 1763-64
Decorated with alternating panels of bleu-céleste ground heightened with a diaper pattern in gilding and panels with flower festoons, the mount with Paris charge and discharge marks for 1762-1768 and one further mark, possibly a crowned Z or 2 for 1763-64, 6cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
David Peters Collection
Literature
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol.4, 2023, p.88
The Sèvres sale records for 1 October 1763 to 1 January 1764 lists two eggs sold to the marchand-mercier M Poirier for 27 livres each (Vy3, fol.146).
Other egg-shaped bonbonnières are in the Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no.LOAN:GILBERT.498:1, 2-2008), and in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (illustrated in M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres, Des origines à nos jours, 1978, p. 201, no. 232).
Another egg-shaped bonbonnière was sold at Christie's New York, 24 October 2012, and two others in the Hôtel Lambert Sale at Sotheby's Paris, 14 October 2022, lot 1192 (previously in the Dr Roy Byrnes Collection, sold at Christie's London, 12 September 2010, lot 267, and again Christie's London, 8 December 2011, lot 25) and lot 1213 (previously sold Christie's London, 16 April 2000, lot 134 and again Christie's London, 8 December 2011, lot 23).
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