A LARGE COMPOSITE FRENCH PORCELAIN PART DINNER SERVICE

19TH CENTURY, VARIOUS INCISED AND STENCILED MARKS

Details

Comprising Sèvres later-decorated, Sèvres style and Paris porcelain pieces, the following pieces in the ‘Service des Chasses’ pattern:
Three round serving dishes
Two compotes
A low footed bowl
A navette-form dish
A large sauceboat and stand
Forty-seven soup plates
Twenty-four large plates, 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) diameter
Ninety-eight plates of slightly variant size, 9 3/8-9 5/8 in. (23.8-24.4 cm.) diameter
A shaped circular plate, 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) diameter
Seventeen plates, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) diameter
Thirty-eight smaller plates, 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) diameter
Ten side plates, 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) diameter
Nine shaped side plates, 7 1/4 in. (18.3 cm.) diameter
Two saucer dishes, 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) diameter
A teapot and cover
Two sugar-bowls and covers of different shape
Two cream-jugs of different shape
A waste bowl
Five teacups and six saucers
A large demitasse cup and saucer
A cylindrical coffee-cup
Three smaller demitasse-cups and five saucers
Four breakfast cups and a saucer
A circular stand, 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter
The following pieces in the ‘Fontainebleau’ pattern, comprising:
Fifteen dessert plates, 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
A jug and cover
Eight teacups and saucers
Three cylindrical coffee-cups and saucers
13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm.) diameter, the round serving dishes
Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1997, lot 135 (part).