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Lot 1224 Dα

Two Sèvres porcelain plates with cameo portraits of Julius Caesar and Trajan

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 12.000 € - 16.000 €
Result: 23.750 € (incl. premium)
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Two Sèvres porcelain plates with cameo portraits of Julius Caesar and Trajan

"Assiette plate" model. Decorated with facing busts designed to resemble chalcedony intaglios, labelled "JULES CESAR" and "TRAJAN" on either side. Pale blue stamped double-L mark and 21 (?), gold "DB II 91 18" and "29 Jn.19", incised marks. D 23.9 and 23.7 cm.
1821.

In 1808, the manufactory produced a first service with cameo painting, the "Service de Dessert à marly fond d'or avec laurier en gris têtes imitant le camée", today in the Hermitage St. Petersburg. In the same year Napoléon commissioned a "service iconographique grec" for St. Cloud. The plates presented here were made in the Louis XVIII period, as was the plate from the Twinight Collection, dated 1823.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

"Cf. Préaud (ed.), The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800 – 1847, New Haven-London 1997, no. 139.
Cf. Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz Königliche Porzellane des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection New York, Munich 2007, no. 11.
Another plate from this service sold in Lempertz Berlin auction 1125, The Twinight Collection I, on 7th November 2018, lot 17."