Napoléon: Une collection historique

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A Sèvres (hard paste) porcelain green-ground dessert plate from the Service Particulier de l'Empereur, circa 1807-10

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20,000 - 30,000 EUR

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the centre decorated with a gilt foliate-scroll medallion centred with a star within a leafy garland, the green-ground border gilt with a frieze of swords alternating with stars and entwined with laurel garland, red stencilled Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres mark partially ground and replaced with the interlaced LL cipher of Louis XVIII in black, numeral 106 in black enamel, 35. B.C. in green enamel, 26.f in gold

Diam. 23,5 cm; diam. 9 1/4 in.

Delivered to Emperor Napoleon I, at the Tuileries Palace, Paris in March 1810, this service was used for the wedding of Napoleon and Marie-Louise;

Anonymous sale, Metayer-Mermoz, Antibes, 4 February 2021, lot 15

T. Préaud, The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, exh. cat., 1998, pp. 116-117, p. 190, no. 22

C. Beyeler, “The Sèvres porcelain collection from the Napoleon I Museum at the Château de Fontainebleau, the Emperor’s private service”, in C. Leprince et. al., Napoléon 1er et La Manufacture de Sèvres, L’Art de la Porcelaine au Service de L’Empire, exh. cat., Paris, 2016, pp. 80-90, p. 282, no. 154

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