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AN ASSEMBLED SEVRES PORCELAIN 'FOND NANKIN' PART A number of 'fond nankin' services were delivered to various illustrious
SERVICE personnages in the year 1810, including the Emperor Napoleon for use at his
CIRCA 1810-25, SOME WITH IRON-RED MANUFACTURE IMPERIAL palace at Saint Cloud, the duc de Blacas (Ministre de la Maison du Roi) and
MARKS FOR 1810, SOME WITH BLUE STENCILED RESAURATION the prince Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. For a discussion of these various
MARKS OF INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING A FLEUR DE LYS, AND services, which may possibly include the 1810 portions of the present service,
THREE WITH CHARLES X MARKS FOR 1825
see C. Leprince, Napoleon Ier & Sevres, Paris, 2016, p. 280-85.
Each center with a gilt foliate roundel within a border of pendant harebells
forming a scalloped band enclosing a dot, the border in shades of warm ochre
yellow, painted in sepia with trailing floral vine and anthemia between gilt
bands, comprising:
A footed fruit bowl
Three low footed compotes (compotiers)
Three navette-shaped sugar-bowls and covers on fixed stands (sucriers)
Forty plates
10√ in. (27.7 cm.) long, the sugar-bowl stands (50)
$7,000-10,000
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