SEVRES - Lot 250

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SEVRES - Lot 250
SEVRES Four plates from the Emperor's service at the Tuileries Suite of four plates in hard porcelain, the wing with a frieze of gilded nasturtiums on a blue background framing a garland of flowers treated in polychrome, surrounding in the center of the flowering branches in rosette. On the reverse side marks of Sevres with the vignette in iron red with the symbol for the years 1805-1806 and a plate marked 8 for 1808 and various initials. Early 19th century, circa 1806 to 1808 D : 23 cm This service is described in the archives of the Manufacture de Sèvres as "beautiful blue background, gold frieze and garlands of flowers". A first part of this service was delivered in 1806 to General Bertrand (1773-1844), grand marshal of the palace at the Tuileries Palace, a second part was delivered for the use of the Emperor still at the Tuileries in August 1808. The grand marshal officiated as an intermediary in this delivery. A part of this service was taken by the Emperor to Saint Helena as a service of use at the same time as the service of the headquarters. A plate of this service today preserved in the castle of Malmaison carries the mention "brought back from Saint Helena". After the Hundred Days, in June 1815, Fouchet authorized the Emperor to take 60 plates of the service of the General Quarters to St. Helena as well as plates of this service "Beau bleu guirlandes" for daily use. The pieces of the service that remained in the Tuileries were used by King Louis XVIII and mentioned in an inventory of 1821 as "the first service of the king with garlands", 48 plates are mentioned in 1848 at the election of the future Napoleon III. In a report on the porcelain at the Tuileries described as follows: "48 dessert plates with beautiful blue border, grand feu, gold garlands, rosettes and garlands of flowers at the bottom, generally altered by use" (Archives de la Manufacture de Sèvres, VBB fol. 65) Bibliography: L'art de la porcelaine au service de l'Empire, collective work under the direction of Camille Leprince, Paris 2016, p.261 and 274
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