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Saucer in Hébert Shape Tea Set: Grand Dejeuner Corbeille
Saucer in Hébert Shape Tea Set: Grand Dejeuner Corbeille

Saucer in Hébert Shape Tea Set: Grand Dejeuner Corbeille

Decorator Louis-Denis Armand (French, born 1723, active 1745 - 1788)
Manufacturer Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, 1756 - present)
Date1757
MediumSoft-paste porcelain decorated with overglaze enamels and gilding
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/8 × 4 5/8 inches (2.86 × 11.75 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Faeth
Object numberF89-27/5
MarkingsFactory mark of interlaced "L"s; "f" and "d" with marks of throwers, moulders or repareurs; 20th c. collection inventory marks.
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DescriptionBlue celeste ground color interlaced in a mosaique pattern surrounding open reserves of exotic birds painted in overglaze polychrome enamels; extensively gilded on and between areas of ground color.Exhibition History

Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12 2024, no cat.


Provenance
Probably commissioned by King Louis XV (1710-1774), Versailles, France, 1757 [1];

Probably his gift to Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria (1717-1780), Vienna, 1758 [2];

With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, stock no. 4528, by October 18, 1963;

Purchased from Rosenberg & Stiebel by Henry Ford II (1917-1987), Grosse Pointe, MI, October 18, 1963-1982 [3];

With Bernard Dragesco-Didier Cramoisan, Paris, by June 1989;

Purchased from Bernard Dragesco-Didier Cramoisan, through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Faeth, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1989.

NOTES:

[1] Although not definitively confirmed, this set is likely the “Grand Déjeuner B.C. [bleu celeste] Mosaïque” valued at 1440 livres in the Sèvres sales registers, delivered to Louis XV in 1758 as part of a large diplomatic gift of porcelain to Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres archive, Vy’ 2, folio 85 (bas), copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

[2] Ibid.
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