TWELVE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PLATES (ASSIETTES A PALME)

CIRCA 1757-1759, BLUE INTERLACED L’S, SOME ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS D, E OR F, PAINTER’S MARK FOR D. LEVE

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TWELVE SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND PLATES (ASSIETTES A PALME)
CIRCA 1757-1759, BLUE INTERLACED L’S, SOME ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS D, E OR F, PAINTER’S MARK FOR D. LEVE
The centers painted with exotic birds in landscapes among trees and shrubs, the green borders molded with C-scrolls and three cartouches of flowers sprays edged with gilt foliate scrolls and flowers between gilt line and dentil borders
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 4302).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point.
Returned to France in 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Birds and flowers on a green-ground were popular motifs among the nobility in the late 1750s. Known Sèvres services that incorporated this trio of design elements include: a service given by King Louis XV to King Frederick V Denmark (see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Little Berkhamsted, Vol. II, no. 57-2, pp. 301-305); a group of 23 plates noted in a posthumous inventory of Madame de Pompadour (see Jean-Cordey, Inventaire des biens de Madame de Pompadour, 1939, p. 63, no. 705 and Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres porcelain, 2021, Norwich, vol. II, p. 661 and fig.15.5); and a service sold on 16 May 1759 to César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul, later duc de Choiseul-Praslin (see Peters, op. cit. no. 59-1, pp. 317-318.)

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