Lot 29
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A Sevres turquoise-ground ice-cup (tasse a glace) from the comte d'artois service
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A Sevres turquoise-ground ice-cup (tasse a glace) from the comte d'artois service

CIRCA 1785, BLUE INTERLACED LS MARK

Details
A Sevres turquoise-ground ice-cup (tasse a glace) from the comte d'artois service
Circa 1785, blue interlaced Ls mark
Of campana form, the double foliage-scroll handle enriched in gilding , the upper part of the body with a continuous turquoise band reserved with two small oval panels and a large shaped panel joined by gilt foliate scrolls, laurels and paterae, the smaller panels each with an insect, the other panel with a bird named on the underside in blue script Martin-pêcheur hupé, du cap de bonne Esperance., on a flared foot, gilt line rims (small chip to underside of footrim)
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
Provenance
The service bought by Charles-Philippe, comte d'Artois on 16th August 1782
Most probably the Collection of the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts Collection, sale Christie's London, 9th-11th May 1922, lot 264 (part).
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Lot Essay

The bird is almost certainly after François Nicolas Martinet's illustrations for the comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux published in ten volumes between 1770 and 1786. The factory began using a copy of this treatise as a basis for decoration from about 1781.

See the plate from the same service sold in these Rooms on 4th February 1980, lot 55, again by Christie's Monaco on 7th July 1987, lot 234 and again from the Charles-Otto Zieseniss Collection on 6th December 2001, lot 137.

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