A pair of Sèvres porcelain green-ground glass coolers, seaux à verre ordinaire, circa 1770

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990);

Thence by family descent.

Perhaps part of a service delivered to the Paris marchand-mercier, Simon-Philippe Poirier in 1771. For a discussion of the three services possibly associated with the 1771 sales return for Poirier see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, vol. II, no. 71-8, pp. 475-478. The decoration is similar to that of a service delivered in 1763 to Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin, holder of important ministerial posts, including administrateur et commissaire du Roi with responsibility for the Sèvres factory itself between 1767 and 1778.

This pair of glass coolers are listed at Rushbrooke Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, in the Inventory and Valuation of the Contents of the Reception Rooms Principal Bedrooms, Silver, Gold Cup, Plated Items, Porcelain, Objects d’art and Pictures, the property of The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, Taken for the purpose of Insurance, Sotheby & Co., 1940, p. 70, recorded in Lady Rothschild’s sitting room: ‘A pair of Sèvres cache pots decorated with panels of flowers on an apple green ground, 4 ½ in wide, by Micaud 1770’.