CIRCA 1757-1775, INTERLACED L’S MARKS ENCLOSING DATE-LETTERS D, F, T AND X, VARIOUS PAINTERS’ AND GILDERS’ MARKS

The compotier coquille dated 1757 is of the same date and gilding design as the compotiers coquille in the service presented by Louis XV to King Frederick V of Denmark, several pieces of which can be found in the present auction. Delivered in 1758, the service included twenty compotiers of five variant shapes priced at 120 livres each, including four compotiers coquille. Three of these compotiers coquille are now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. (See Nina Birioukova, La porcelaine de Sèvres de XVIIIème siècle, catalogue of the collection of the Hermitage Museum, 2005, nos. 55-57, p. 120 for an illustration of one). The initial listing of the Denmark service delivered to Lazare Duvaux in the second half of 1757 included twenty-two compotiers. David Peters has suggested that the two compotiers not delivered by Lazare Duvaux in 1758 may have been the two compotiers verts, à coquille at 120 livres each listed in the marchand-mercier's livre-journal of 31 December 1757, sold to Louis XV's daughter, Madame Victoire (Louis Courajod, Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux, marchand bijoutier ordinaire du Roy, 1748-58, 1873, no. 3008). The presence here of two other 1772 compotiers coquille, with the same decoration as the one dated 1757, suggests that the 1772 compotiers were ordered as supplements to accompany the 1757 compotier that remained in France, and therefore that the latter may probably be one of the two purchased by Madame Victoire in 1757. The two compotiers ronds dated 1759 are most likely from the green service sold on 16 May 1759 to César-Gabriel, comte de Choiseul, later duc de Choiseul-Praslin. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Little Berkhamsted, Vol. II, no. 57-2, pp. 301-305 and no. 59-1, pp. 317-318.