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Lot 211

A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground ice cup from the Prince de Rohan Service, circa 1771

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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A Sèvres bleu-célèste-ground ice cup from the Prince de Rohan Service, circa 1771

Tasse à glace, the blue ground reserved with a panel depicting a bird in a landscape within a gilt oak leaf and acorn cartouche, the rims gilt, 6.5cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter S in black and painter's mark .F. for J.-A. Fallot (replaced metal handle)

Footnotes

The present lot is from the dessert service made for Cardinal Louis-René-Edouard Prince de Rohan-Guémenée, the Ambassador-Extraordinary to Austria from 1772 to 1774, when he fell out of favour with the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. He later became Grand Almoner of France, the Cardinal of Sainte Eglise Romaine in 1778 and afterwards Bishop of Strasbourg and the Saint Empire in 1779. The service consisted of 368 pieces costing 20,772 livres and was delivered on 7 September 1772. A trial plate and three further plates are in the Royal Collection and illustrated by Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II (2009), nos. 157-158.

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