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Lot Essay
The Chérémèteff family were at the height of their power and influence during the reign of Catherine the Great. Members held high office in the army, navy, and diplomatic corps. It is likely that the dessert service to which the present ice cup stand belongs was a gift of the French government. Twelve plates from the service from a New England Collection were sold Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 51. In addition, one plate is in The Wrightsman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and two more collected by Nelson A. Rockefeller were sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 11 April 1980, lot 242.
See also Svend Eriksen, James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain, Fribourg, 1968, pp. 206-277 for a discussion of the Razoumovski Service and Ghenete Zelleke, "French Porcelain and the Dukes of Richmond", French Porcelain Society, vol. VII, 1991. The Waddesdon Manor and Goodwood services and the Chérémèteff service are all painted with subjects taken from George Edwards, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds first published in France as Histoire naturelle des divers oiseaux in 1745 and 1748.
See also Svend Eriksen, James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Sèvres Porcelain, Fribourg, 1968, pp. 206-277 for a discussion of the Razoumovski Service and Ghenete Zelleke, "French Porcelain and the Dukes of Richmond", French Porcelain Society, vol. VII, 1991. The Waddesdon Manor and Goodwood services and the Chérémèteff service are all painted with subjects taken from George Edwards, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds first published in France as Histoire naturelle des divers oiseaux in 1745 and 1748.