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Lot 253
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures reading, farming and at other pursuits, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 254
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures reading, farming and at other pursuits, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 255
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures at various pursuits, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 256
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures playing games, farming and at other pursuits, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 257
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures playing games and at other pursuits, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 258
A rare pair of Sèvres chinoiserie plates, c.1795, the wells finely painted with continuous garlands of polychrome flowers, the rims richly decorated in gilt and platinum on a blue-black ground, each with three chinoiserie scenes of Oriental figures playing games and in gardens, each marked `Sèvres` to the reverse, 24.4cm. (2)This pair of plates form part of a service which, in turn, belongs to a very rare group of Sèvres hard-paste porcelains. In the last decade of the 18th century, while France was in revolutionary turmoil, the Sèvres factory responded to the fashion and desire for Oriental lacquer by producing a number of pieces with chinoiserie decoration in gold and platinum on a rich black ground. The techniques for producing such wares are known to have been mastered around the start of that decade, and the first recorded service produced with this decoration was sold to a M. de Sémonville in 1791. This was presumably Charles Louis Huguet, the Marquis de Sémonville, who was that year appointed Minister and Envoy Extraordinary of France in Genoa. But it was in 1794 and 1795 that a number of services and other items, totalling many hundreds of thousands of livres, were sold to the Citoyen Empaytaz et Compagnie - an extremely wealthy dealer with offices in Paris and Berlin. While archives are sketchy, there is enough evidence to conclude that among the pieces sold in these consignments were a number of services with chinoiserie decoration in gilt and platinum, and that these plates would almost certainly have been included in their number.While there are a number of variations on the decoration of the wells of plates from these services, the border decoration remains remarkably similar. Sadly, there is nothing in the archives to pinpoint a specific designer at Sèvres, but inspiration is believed to have been taken from original Chinese lacquerwork, Chinese woodcut prints, and designs by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. A number of plates from the services delivered to Empaytaz are now in National collections and only a limited number of pieces remain in private hands. The Metropolitan Museum holds nine plates, slightly different to these, which are discussed at length in an article for the museum`s 2002 journal (No. 37) by Antoine D`Albis, entitled "Hard-paste Porcelain Plates from Sèvres with Chinoiserie Decoration in Colored Golds and Platinums". The British Museum holds a plate very similar to these, as does the Hermitage Museum. A pair of vases in the Royal Collection bear remarkably similar decoration.These two plates were among 36 held in the collection of Lord and Lady Fairhaven, the other 24 of which have been previously sold at these rooms.For more information concerning this service and type of chinoiserie decoration please see: Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection, pp. 213-214, no. 177, and David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Vol. V, pp. 1053-55.
Lot 578
Attributed to Luigi Rossini, Italian 1790-1857- Figure in a ruined temple; etching, 51x74cm: French School, late 18th/early 19th century- Party of figures in an elegant interior; pen and brown ink and grey wash on laid, 21x29.5cm: Dutch School, 18th century- Harbour scene with shipping; pen and brown ink and watercolour on laid, 16.5x28cm: British School, 19th century- Studies of baskets; pencil, four in a shared mount and common frame, all bear inscriptions, 8x10cm., (max): together with two steel engraved book plates of Rouen and Lyons, various sizes, (6)
Lot 52
* Preziosi (Vittorio Amadeo, 1816-1882). Oriental woman and child with a street beggar, 1856, watercolour over pencil, signed and dated lower right, 24.5 x 17.5cm (9.6 x 6.9ins), together with Seated Oriental Man, watercolour and pencil, 27 x 18.5cm (10.5 x 7.25ins), plus two other similar watercolours by the same hand, including an oriental man at prayer, and a street entertainer with harnessed bear and tambourine, similar sizes, all black and gilt frames, glazed (4)
Lot 371
* Neilson (Harry B., 1861-1941). “Mince Pies!”, pen, ink, and watercolour illustration on card, of a jovial brown bear dressed in chef’s whites, with a sprig of mistletoe in his hat and bearing a large tray of mince pies, followed by a crowd of juvenile bears waving union jacks, signed lower right, sheet size 32 x 25.5cm (12.5 x 10ins) (1)
Lot 637
A 19th century Black Forest carved wood smoker`s table, by Victor Michel & Pierre Michel, the pierced foliate top with two lidded compartments set with three small bears supported by a bear holding a branch and plinth base with block feet, original paper label to the underside of one of the boxes for Holzschnitzereien Wood Carving Sculptures, 2ft 11in. x 1ft 10in.
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