AN ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN PART DINNER SERVICE
AN ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN PART DINNER SERVICE

MOSTLY SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN PART DINNER SERVICE
MOSTLY SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Painted with loose bouquets within blue-line-and-gilt dash-borders, comprising: two lobed oval serving dishes (compotiers ovale), two butter tubs and two covers on fixed stands (beurriers), fourteen soup plates (assiettes à potage), eighteen dinner plates (assiettes unies), two lobed bowls (jattes), four shaped oval dishes (compotiers ovale), four lobed circular dishes (compotiers rond), four shell-shaped dishes (compotiers 'coquille'), three shaped square dishes (compotiers carré), two lobed oval sugar bowls and two covers on fixed stands (sucriers de M. Le Premier), a shaped oval bottle cooler with pierced strainer (seau ovale à liqueur), four ice cups (tasses à glasse), ten lobed dessert plates (assiettes unies), together with: a feuille de choux salad bowl similary decorated (jatte à feuilles-de-choux), two feuille de choux lobed ice cup stands (soucoupes à pied), seven feuille de choux ice cream cups (tasses à glasse)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 December 2003, lot 69 (a large portion of the lot).
The Property of a Lady of Title; Christie's, London, 14 June 1994, lots 97 and 109 (the ice cups and stands).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 October 2012, lot 26.

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