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拍品专文
The Sevres sales registers note that the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier bought a marronnière et plateau Verds fleurs for 360 livres in the first half of 1760 (Arch. Sèvres, Vy3, f°9). A marronnière fond verd was sold to Madame de Pompadour in December 1760 for 192 livres, but this price rather suggests a marronière à ozier (Arch. Sèvres, Vy3, f°45).
Only three examples of this form, likely the ‘marronnière contournée’ introduced in 1758, are known. The present example, the other example in this Rothschild auction series, and its probable mate in the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the Milwaukee example, see Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, vol. II, pp. 716, fig.15.57.
Chestnut baskets are first recorded in the Sèvres archives in 1757 under the names 'marronnières unies' and 'marronnières a compartimens' (Arch. MNS, I7, 1758, f°6), and by the following year several new adaptations of the form are recorded in production. Some constituted parts of services and others were sold individually, in pairs or occasionally in sets of four. Popular on the grandest tables in France, they were ordered by Louis XV, Louis XVI, Mme. Victoire and her sisters and Mme. de Pompadour among others. Indeed, the December 1959 sales ledgers (Vy 3 fol. 7) record a sale to the King of ‘ventes au comptant faite a Versailles/au Roy/1 maronniere fleurs et plateau 144 (livres)’.
Designed to serve marrons glacés at dessert, the baskets were of an openwork or pierced pattern, allowing air to circulate around the contents and permitting the excess sugar to drain, preserving the chestnuts' texture. The Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert (Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, 1772, p. 240) gives a contemporary account of their use in the 18th century: 'On sert dans les meilleurs tables, au dessert, les marrons rôtis sous la cendre; on les pele ensuite, & on les enduit de Suc d'orange, ou de limon avec un peu de sucre'
Only three examples of this form, likely the ‘marronnière contournée’ introduced in 1758, are known. The present example, the other example in this Rothschild auction series, and its probable mate in the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the Milwaukee example, see Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, vol. II, pp. 716, fig.15.57.
Chestnut baskets are first recorded in the Sèvres archives in 1757 under the names 'marronnières unies' and 'marronnières a compartimens' (Arch. MNS, I7, 1758, f°6), and by the following year several new adaptations of the form are recorded in production. Some constituted parts of services and others were sold individually, in pairs or occasionally in sets of four. Popular on the grandest tables in France, they were ordered by Louis XV, Louis XVI, Mme. Victoire and her sisters and Mme. de Pompadour among others. Indeed, the December 1959 sales ledgers (Vy 3 fol. 7) record a sale to the King of ‘ventes au comptant faite a Versailles/au Roy/1 maronniere fleurs et plateau 144 (livres)’.
Designed to serve marrons glacés at dessert, the baskets were of an openwork or pierced pattern, allowing air to circulate around the contents and permitting the excess sugar to drain, preserving the chestnuts' texture. The Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert (Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, 1772, p. 240) gives a contemporary account of their use in the 18th century: 'On sert dans les meilleurs tables, au dessert, les marrons rôtis sous la cendre; on les pele ensuite, & on les enduit de Suc d'orange, ou de limon avec un peu de sucre'