Napoléon: Une collection historique

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 85. A Sèvres (hard paste) porcelain gold-ground oval tray and teapot and cover, 'théière Asselin', from the déjeuner service 'fables de la Fontaine', circa 1812, probably presented by Empress Marie-Louise to Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland.

A Sèvres (hard paste) porcelain gold-ground oval tray and teapot and cover, 'théière Asselin', from the déjeuner service 'fables de la Fontaine', circa 1812, probably presented by Empress Marie-Louise to Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

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Description

Painted en grisaille by Claude-Charles Gérard, the tray with three titled circular panels, 'La Veuve D Une Journee.', 'Le Meunier.', Son Fils, et L'Ane.' and 'La Veuve D'Une Année', the teapot with two titled rectangular panels, 'Les deux Amis.' and 'Le Berger et le Roi.', depicting 17th century figural interior, rural or Eastern genre scenes, after engravings by Charles Percier of Jean de la Fontaine's Fables, published by Pierre Didot l'ainé, the tray with two animal scenes and four panels of trophies, all to simulate hardstone cameos, against a burnished gold ground with colourful arabesques issuing leafy fronds, the tray with a tooled laurel border, red stencilled Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres mark and date 1812 twice, incised HL, ala. b.(?), OZ for 1811 to tray, partial red stencilled mark, incised OZ for 1811, various incised marks to teapot

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The tray: Long. 45 cm; Length 17 ¾ in

The teapot: Haut. 21 cm; Height 8 1/4 in.

Delivered to the Tuileries Palace 28 December 1812, intended as a New Year's gift from Empress Marie-Louise to Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland

Alexandre Popoff, Paris (paper label applied to interior of teapot)

C. Leprince et. al., Napoléon 1er et La Manufacture de Sèvres, L’Art de la Porcelaine au Service de L’Empire, catalogue d'exposition, Paris, 2016, p. 328, no. 118

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