Nadia Bellingeri
Sale Manager, Private Sales & Themed Sales
Lot 102*
A Sèvres signed plate from the service 'marli d'or', circa 1806-1807
27 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £22,750 inc. premium
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A Sèvres signed plate from the service 'marli d'or', circa 1806-1807
Painted by Lebel, signed l.r., with a topographical view titled on the reverse in black 'Bords du Rhin./Brau Bach.', the rim with a burnished gilt ground border elaborately tooled with acanthus leaves above a beaded band, 23.4cm diam., 'M.Imp.le/ de Sevres/18..' stencilled in iron-red (indistinct date stamp), 31.At B.T in gilding, incised marks
Footnotes
The first mention of the 'marli d'or' service can be found in the Sèvres work records of 1805, but it continued being made until the restoration of the French monarchy.
Napoleon gave pieces from the service as gifts to King Friedrich August I of Saxony in 1809 and subsequently to Prince Schwarzenberg, the Austrian ambassador, in 1812. The decoration included a variety of subjects, such as flower still lifes, landscapes, cameos and historical and genre scenes. The best painters of the manufactory worked on the plates, such as Drolling, Georget, and others. See Camille Leprince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres (2016), no. 111 and p. 239, and Samuel Wittwer, Refinement & Elegance - Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection (2007), p.246, no.60.
The scene of the present lot depicts a view of the river Rhine with the town of Braubach beside it and the Marksburg above.
