A pair of Paris (Dihl et Guérhard) porcelain burnished gold-ground plates from the service made for Eugène de Beauharnais, circa 1811-13
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
each burnished gold plate chased in the centre with a foliate scroll initial 'E' and around the edge of the cavetto with a band of stiff-leaf tips, the rim with a border of stylised laurel vine and rosettes, Mf de Dihl et Guerhard a Paris factory marks stenciled in iron-red, red enamel Hermitage inventory numbers, one with applied paper inventory label with printed numeral 13, inscribed N177 in ink and 17566 in pencil
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Diam. 24,1 cm; Diam. 9 1/2 in.
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Vice-Roi d’Italie prince de Venise, grand-duc de Francfort, duc de Leuchtenberg and prince d’Eichstätt (1781-1824);
By descent to his son, Maximilian Joseph Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais, 3rd duc de Leuchtenberg, Prince Romanowsky (1817-1852);
By descent to his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia and Duchess of Leuchtenberg (1819-1876);
By descent to their children, Leuchtenberg House, St. Petersburg;
Registered as under the protection of the government at the request Olga Nikolaevna, widow of Prince Georgii Maximilianovich Romanowsky, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1919;
Transferred from Leuchtenberg House to storage in the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace and eventually to the Winter Palace and the Hermitage via the State Museum Fund;
Mrs. Mary Mallory Harahan, acquired 1932;
By descent until sold, 'Property from a Private Collection', Christie's, New York, 15 Apr 2011, lot 412 (part lot)