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

A Sèvres porcelain part tea service `à rubans bleu céleste', 1770-1771

Auction Closed

October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A Sèvres porcelain part tea service `à rubans bleu céleste', 1770-1771

painted with interlocking meandering garlands of flowers and turquoise ribbon, comprising: an ovoid teapot and cover (théière 'Calabre'), a sugar bowl and cover (pot à sucre 'Bouret'), a milk jug (pot à lait 'à tois pieds'), seventeen cups and fifteen saucers (gobelets 'Bouillard' et soucoupes)various interlaced L's marks, date letters R and S and painter's marks for Nicholas Catrice

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Important service à thé en porcelaine "à rubans bleu céleste", Manufacture de Sèvres, 1770-1771

L entrelacés, lettres dates R et S et marque de peintre pour Nicholas Catrice

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Almost certainly purchased by Madame Du Barry's chargé d'affaires Jean-Baptiste Buffaut in December 1770;

Sotheby's London, 7 November 1986, lot 142 (part);

Sotheby's Zürich, 5 December 1991, lot 286 (part);

Graf Paris, 2015.

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Presque certainement acheté par Jean-Baptiste Buffaut, chargé d'affaires de Madame Du Barry en décembre 1770;

Sotheby's Londres, 7 novembre 1986, lot 142;

Sotheby's Zürich, 5 Decembre 1991, lot 286;

Graf Paris, 2015.

An addition to the service à rubans bleu céleste, in the form of a supplement was purchased by Buffaut on 31st December 1770, which included a group of teawares comprising 24 gobelets et soucoupes, 1 pot à sucre, 1 pot à lait and 1 jatte à lait. For a full discussion on this service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2005, Vol. II, pp. 419-420.

Nicholas Catrice was a painter of flowers and patterns active 1757-1774.