A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux" - image-1
A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux" - image-2
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A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux" - image-1A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux" - image-2A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux" - image-3

Lot 527 Dα

A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux"

Auction 1086 - overview Cologne
19.05.2017, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.480 € (incl. premium)

A Sèvres soft paste dish with a thrush from the "service des oiseaux"

Signed to the back "Grive, appellée, la Litourne." and marked with interlaced L and double O for the year 1792 as well as painter´s mark dagger for the painter Evans. Little worn, minimal faults to glaze. Diameter 23.9 cm.
1792.

Sèvres continued to use the Louis XVI mark until 1792, even after the insurrection of 10th August 1793 and the deposition of the monarchy. The service was made for the Rambouillet Laiterie, which was erected in the garden of Marie Antoinette's palace in 1785.

Provenance

Formerly the Heuser Collection, Hamburg.

Literature

A handled beaker after the antique in the Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres, inv. MNC 23033 (in cat: Porcelain de Sèvres 18e - 21e siècle, Riga 2007, no. 10).