A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand - image-1
A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand - image-2
A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand - image-1A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand - image-2

Lot 10 Dα

A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 10.625 € (incl. premium)
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A Sèvres porcelain bullion dish on stand

"Coupe hémispherique à bouillon et sa soucoupe" model. Comprising a semi-spherical cup on a flared tapering base. The body and well of the saucer painted with a dense design of Neoclassical tendrils amid triangular and rhomboid motifs with faux cameos. The shaft with faux fluting, the well of the saucer with a rosette. Dish with impressed mark DL, stand with incised DC 73:12. D 23.3 cm.
Circa 1810 - 13, the decor presumably after motifs by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine.

Tamara Preaud discovered the design for this dish model imitating a Greek cantharos in the Sèvres archive, dated 1803.

Provenance

Christie's London on 3rd June 2014, lot 51.

Literature

A dish with this form made in 1813 in the collection of the Duke Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig (inv. no. Por 7538, Por 7539), in cat.: Porcelaine royale Napoléons Bedeutung für Sèvres und Fürstenberg, Braunschweig 2017, no. 141.
Cf. also cat.: The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture 1997, p. 175, no. 10.