Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

A gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain inkstand, 1767

Auction Closed

October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain inkstand, 1767

of shaped oval form raised on four feet with pierced foliate moulded handles, painted with flowers below blue lines with gilt dash ornament

blue interlaced L'S enclosing date letter O, painter's blue script L mark for Denis Levé

length 11⅜in.; 29 cm.

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Encrier ovale en porcelaine et bronze doré, Manufacture de Sèvres, 1767

L entrelacés entourant la lettre date o, marque de peintre pour Denis Levé

length 11⅜in.; 29 cm.

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A member of the Rothschild Family;

Christie's London, 7 July 2003, lot 24;

Christie's London, 12 May 2010, lot 255.

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Un membre de la famille Rothschild;

Christie's Londres, 7 juillet 2003, lot 24;

Christie's Londres, 12 mai 2010, lot 255.

A similar earlier example of the form is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, see S. Eriksen and G. de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740-1800, London, 1987, p. 296-7, no. 108. Another version of the form in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection is illustrated by Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eigtheenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, pp. 306-7, where the authors refer to a similar inkstand sold for 144 livres on 23 September 1773 to M. Terranne Bruneau (Vy 5 fol. 92 v°), described as Ecritoire ancienne forme garnie de ses pieces accessoires guirlandes de fleurs et baguettes en or. Another inkstand, also costing 144 livres, perhaps the present example, appears in the sales ledgers (Vy 4 fol.199) Livrisons pour l'annee entiere 1769 / M. Dulac / 1 ecritoire 144.