THE 'MARLY ROUGE' SERVICE: A SEVRES PORCELAIN IRON-RED AND SKY-BLUE GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE MADE FOR NAPOLEON I CIRCA 1807-09, IRON-RED STENCILED M. IMPLE DE SEVRES MARK, DATE CYPHERS 7, 8 AND 9 FOR 1807-09, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS Painted with scattered butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, beetles and other insects, the plates with a further gold band reserved and painted with a ribbon-tied wreath of flowers, the border gilt with paired berried leaves extending off a central vine, comprising: An ice-pail, cover and liner with elephant-head handles ( glacière ‘Brachard’ ou ‘à tête d’eléphants’ ), finely painted to each side with a bouquet surrounded by insects A pair of oval eagle-headed sauce-tureens or sugar-bowls, covers and navette shaped stands ( sucriers ‘tête d’aigle’ ), the finials as eagle chicks hatching from eggs A footed bowl ( jatte ‘Hebé ’) Two compotes supported by four parcel gilt dolphins ( compotiers ‘à pieds dauphins’ ) Four slightly smaller footed compotes ( compotiers ‘sans dauphins’ ) Twelve plates 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, the cooler Provenance Ordered for Napoleon 1er at the château de Compiègne but delivered to Fontainebleau, 11 October 1809. Acquired by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Bequest to Laurance S. Rockefeller, 1948. Acquired from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller, 11 July 2004.
THE 'MARLY ROUGE' SERVICE: A SEVRES PORCELAIN IRON-RED AND SKY-BLUE GROUND PART DESSERT SERVICE MADE FOR NAPOLEON I CIRCA 1807-09, IRON-RED STENCILED M. IMPLE DE SEVRES MARK, DATE CYPHERS 7, 8 AND 9 FOR 1807-09, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS Painted with scattered butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, beetles and other insects, the plates with a further gold band reserved and painted with a ribbon-tied wreath of flowers, the border gilt with paired berried leaves extending off a central vine, comprising: An ice-pail, cover and liner with elephant-head handles ( glacière ‘Brachard’ ou ‘à tête d’eléphants’ ), finely painted to each side with a bouquet surrounded by insects A pair of oval eagle-headed sauce-tureens or sugar-bowls, covers and navette shaped stands ( sucriers ‘tête d’aigle’ ), the finials as eagle chicks hatching from eggs A footed bowl ( jatte ‘Hebé ’) Two compotes supported by four parcel gilt dolphins ( compotiers ‘à pieds dauphins’ ) Four slightly smaller footed compotes ( compotiers ‘sans dauphins’ ) Twelve plates 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, the cooler Provenance Ordered for Napoleon 1er at the château de Compiègne but delivered to Fontainebleau, 11 October 1809. Acquired by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Bequest to Laurance S. Rockefeller, 1948. Acquired from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller, 11 July 2004.
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