An Important Sèvres Porcelain Assembled Part-Dinner Service, circa 1783-89
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60,000 - 80,000 USD
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An Important Sèvres Porcelain Assembled Part-Dinner Service, circa 1783-89
comprising pieces from two Sèvres services made respectively for John Frederick Sackville (1745-1799), 3rd Duke of Dorset, and William Hussey (1725-1813), Member of Parliament for Salisbury, vibrantly painted in a frize riche pattern, with bouquets of forget-me-nots at the centers within pink and green borders, the gilt-edged shaped rims decorated with medallions of single roses reserved by a blue-ground, set by an interlaced pink and green ribbons framing further forget-me-nots, with yellow-edges with puce foliate garlands, heightened by gilding, comprising:
ninety-six dinner plates, 9 1/2 in., 24 cm diam.;
two shell-shaped dishes, compotier coquille, length 8 7/8 in., 22.5 cm;
five square dishes, compotier carré, width 8 1/2 in., 21.5 cm;
six oval dishes, compotier ovale, width 10 5/8 in., 27 cm;
five circular dishes, compotier rond, diam. 8 in., 20.3 cm;
one large circular bowl, saladier, diam. 10 3/4 in., 27.3 cm;
two monteiths, seau crénelé, width 12in., 30.5 cm;
two oval sugar bowls and covers on fixed stands, sucrier de Monsieur le Premier, width 9 1/2 in., 24 cm;
two oval trays with two preserve pots and covers, plateau à deux pots de confiture, width 9 1/2 in., 24 cm;
two triangular trays with three preserve pots and covers, plateau à trois pots de confiture, width 8 5/8 in., 22 cm;
five glass coolers, seau à liqueur rond, height 5 1/4 in., 13.5 cm;
six ice cream cups, tasse à glace, height 2 1/2 in., 6.5 cm;
together with two Paris porcelain (Locré factory) ice-pails and covers, height 8 1/2 in., 21.5 cm,
interlaced LL marks in either blue, gilding or puce enclosing date letters FF for 1783, GG for 1784, KK for 1787, MM for 1789, various painter's marks including those for François-Marie Barrat, oncle, Edme-François Bouillat père, Nicolas Bulidon, Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils aîné or l’aîné Cyprien-Julien Hirel de Choisy, Michel-Gabriel Commelin, Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles, Jacques-François-Louis de Laroche, Pierre Massy, Guillaume Noël, Jean-Baptiste Tandart l’aîné, gilder's marks including Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux, Étienne-Gabriel Girard, André, Joseph La France, Étienne-Henry Le Guay, François Mirey, Henry-François Vincent le jeune, later père, Henri-Martin Prévost, the Locré coolers with crossed arrow marks in underglaze-blue. 150 pieces.
Part of the present service:
From the service purchased by John Frederick Sackville (1745-1799), 3rd Duke of Dorset in 1784, English Ambassador to France between 13 January 1784 and 8 August 1789;
The other part of the present service:
From the service purchased by William Hussey (1724-1813), Member of Parliament for Salisbury in 1788;
Collection of Charles Robert, 1st Earl Carrington, Marquis of Lincolnshire, Wycombe Abbey, Christie's, London, 17 July, 1896, lot 121;
Collection of Marquis of Lincolnshire, Christie's, London, 5 December, 1928, lot 54;
Then, sold, Galerie Charpentier (Me Baudouin, Walther, Ader), Paris, 8 November, 1935, lot 109;
All pieces, Château du Marais, Artcurial, Paris, 21 September, 2022, lot 27;
Where acquired by the present collector.
The present assemblage brings together surviving elements from two distinct Sèvres services of the same pattern, originally produced for the prominent English patrons John Frederick Sackville (1745-1799), 3rd Duke of Dorset, and William Hussey (1725-1813), Member of Parliament for Salisbury, before being united as a single service in the twentieth century.
The first earlier service was supplied by the Sèvres manufactory in 1784 to John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who served as British Ambassador to France from 13 January 1784 until 8 August 1789. Purchased on 17 December 1784, the service comprised eighty-four plates, sixteen compotiers in four different forms and four sucriers. Further additions were acquired in 1785 and 1789, including wine coolers, salad bowls and additional plates. A watercolour design for the decoration of the Duke of Dorset service, appears as 'Design No. 2' in the factory Album of Plate Designs, Design No. 2 being specifically endorsed “Service de l’Ambass d’Angleterre". Today, four plates from the Duke of Dorset's service survive at Knole, Kent, the ancestral seat of the Sackville family.
A second service of the same pattern was purchased from the Sèvres manufactory on 29 March 1788 by the Swiss banker Jean-Frédéric Perregaux, acting on behalf of British politician William Hussey of London (1724-1813), Member of Parliament for Salisbury. It seems plausible that Hussey selected the pattern after seeing in England the service acquired by the Duke of Dorset four years earlier. The Hussey service comprised thirty-six plates, sixteen compotiers in four different forms, two sucriers, fourteen tasses à glace with two stands, two stands with pairs of sweetmeat pots, two stands with three sweetmeat pots, six seaux à liqueur ronds, and two seaux crénelés.
Related Literature
D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol III and IV, 2005, revised edition 2026, pp. 745-46, 861-62, nos. 84-13, 88-5.
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