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From storeroom to stardom: the revelations of two Sèvres porcelain trays
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 834–847
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Author:
Savill, Rosalind (Savill, Rosalind)
Subjects
artists:
Dodin, Charles Nicolas / Genest, Jean-Baptiste-Étienne / Loo, Carle van
artists:
Risenburgh, Bernard, II, van, 1696-ca. 1766
collectors and dealers:
Mills, Charles ((1792–1872)
dates:
1760-1769
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
Courteille, Marquis de, (1696–1767),
subjects:
Sèvres / Porcelain / chiffonier / Plaques / Provenance
subjects:
Rococo
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Worktable mounted with two trays, attributed to Bernard II van Risenburgh. Table c.1761–63; trays c.1761. Table: wood, green varnish and gilt-bronze mounts, 68.6 by 36.8 by 30.5 cm.; trays: Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, green ground, enamel colours and gilding, 32 by 26 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
10. Top row: details of Figs.8, 2 and 7, comparing the images of Mademoiselle Madeleine de Courteille aged twelve (left) and eighteen (right), with her probable portrait aged fourteen (centre).
Attributed works:
11. Centre row: details of Figs.2 and 7, showing the face of Madame de Courteille aged thirty-four and thirty-eight respectively.
Attributed works:
12. Bottom row: details of Figs.2 and 7, showing the green ringneck parakeet.
Attributed works:
13. Plateau ‘Courteille’ from a déjeuner ‘Courteille’, by André-Vincent Vielliard. 1758 (date letter E). Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, rose ground, enamel colours and gilding, 23.2 by 32.7 cm. (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford).
Attributed works:
14. Detail of Fig.13, showing the central scene of a child painter and sitter.
Attributed works:
15. Snuff box design, probably Henry-Joseph Mongenot. Second quarter 18th century. Pen and ink, watercolour and wash on paper, 5 by 7.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
16. Bottom panel of a snuff box, by Noël Hardivilliers. 1757–58. Gold and enamel, 3.5 by 7 by 5.1 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Attributed works:
17. Painting from the series Les Arts, by Carle van Loo. 1752–53. Oil on canvas, 87.5 by 84 cm. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
Attributed works:
18. Details of Figs.14 and 2, showing the young girls.
Attributed works:
19. Cuvette à fleurs ‘Verdun’ painted with a Teniers scene, by André-Vincent Vielliard. 1760 (date letter G). Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, turquoise ground, enamel colours and gilding, 11.8 by 23.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Top tray of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
20. Blue Drawing Room at Camelford House, London. Photograph, 1891. (From Christie’s: Catalogue of the Furniture, Porcelain, Pictures, &c. at Camelford House, Park Lane, The town residence of Lord Hillingdon, London 1891, p.34).
Attributed works:
21. Charles Mills and his family at Hillingdon Court. Photograph, late 1850s. (Hillingdon Council, Museums and Archives Services, Uxbridge Library).
Attributed works:
22. Plateau ‘carré painted in the manner of André-Vincent Vielliard from déjeuner ‘carré (matching cup and saucer missing). 1760 (date letter G). Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, rose and green ground, enamel colours and gilding, 10.8 by 10.8 cm. (Private collection; photograph Millon).
Attributed works:
23. Minton drawing of the border and gilded patterns on Fig.4. 1763. Watercolour, paint, pen, ink and pencil on paper, 47 by 34.5 cm. (sheet). (Minton Archives, ‘Old Sevres Copies’).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of the bottom tray of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
4. Worktable mounted with two trays, attributed to Bernard II van Risenburgh. Table c.1761–63; top tray 1763 (date letter K), bottom tray c.1850. Table: wood, green varnish and gilt-bronze mounts, 67.6 by 35.9 by 30.5 cm.; top tray: Sèvres soft-paste porcelain; bottom tray: Minton bone china, green ground, enamel colours and gilding, 32 by 26 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Reverse of Fig.7, showing inscription and factory mark (upside down).
Attributed works:
6. Fig.7 shown framed as hung by the marquis de Courteille in his study in his Parisian hôtel from 1765–67. 1765. Gilded wood (frame), 35 by 38 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
7. Picture plaque, by Charles-Nicolas Dodin. 1765 (date letter M). Sèvres soft-paste porcelain and enamel colours, 23.5 by 26 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. Portrait of Madeleine-Mélanie Henriette de Courteille, by Jean- Baptiste Greuze. 1759. Oil on canvas, 79 by 64 cm. (Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig).
Attributed works:
9. Cuvette à fleurs ‘Courteille’, probably by Charles-Nicolas Dodin. 1759 (date letter F). Sèvres soft-paste porcelain, blue and green ground, enamel colours and gilding, 19.7 by 32.5 cm. (Private collection).
Article
Sèvres Artists and Their Sources I: Paintings and Drawings
10/1980 | 931 | 122
Pages: 666-678+681-682
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Author:
Bellaigue, Geoffrey de (Bellaigue, Geoffrey de)
Subjects
artists:
Bachelier, Jean-Jacques
artists:
Lagrenée, Jean Jacques II, 1739-1821
artists:
Genest, Jean-Baptiste-Étienne
artists:
Régnier, Nicolas
dates:
1750-1849
places:
France
sources:
Flahaut de la Billaderie, Charles-Claude, Comte d'Angiviller, 1730–1810
subjects:
Ceramics / Porcelain
subjects:
Sèvres porcelain
subjects:
French painting
subjects:
Documents
subjects:
Visual sources
subjects:
Flahaut de la Billaderie, Charles-Claude, Comte d'Angiviller, 1730–1810
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Plate. Sèvres Porcelain, Diameter 24 cm. Dated 1789, with the Mark of the Gilder H.-M. Prévost. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
10. Flowers and Fruit, by Corneille van Spaendonck. Oil on Canvas, Diameter 7 cm. Used as Model for Fig. 9. (Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris).
Attributed works:
11. Table and Casket. Stamped by A.-L. Bellangé. c.1825. Both Pieces Are Mounted with Eighteenth-Century Sèvres Porcelain Plaques. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
14. Vase à Bandes. Sèvres Porcelain. Height 42.5 cm. Dated 1767, with the Mark of the Gilder E.-H. Leguay. (Wallace Collection).
Attributed works:
15. Detail of Vase à Bandes. Sèvres Porcelain. Dated 1776, with the Marks of the Painter C.-N. Dodin and of the Gilder E.-H. Leguay. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
16. Pot à jus, Part of Louis XVI's Service. Sèvres Porcelain. Height 7.5 cm. Bearing the Mark of the Gilder E.-H. Leguay and Probably Dating from 1787. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
18. Detail of pot à eau. Sèvres Porcelain. Dated 1788, with the Mark of an Artist, Perhaps That of C.-A. Didier. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
19. Dog with Duck, by François Desportes. 61 by 53 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres; On Loan to the Musée de la Chasse, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Cup (Gobelet Litron). Sèvres Porcelain. Height 6.6 cm. Painted by Tardy, 1784. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
20. Dog with Game, by J.-B. Oudry. Signed and Dated 1748. 119 by 154 cm. (Wallace Collection).
Attributed works:
21. Lion, by François Desportes. Oil on Paper, Pasted on Cardboard, 35 by 65 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres: On Loan to the Musée de la Chasse, Paris).
Attributed works:
22. Detail of Fig. 1. [Plate. Sèvres Porcelain, Diameter 24 cm. Dated 1789, with the Mark of the Gilder H.-M. Prévost. (Royal Collection).]
Attributed works:
23. Turning Dog, by François Desportes. Oil on Paper, Pasted on Cardboard, 28 by 31 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres: On Loan to the Musée international de la Chasse, Gien).
Attributed works:
24. Detail of Fig. 1. [Plate. Sèvres Porcelain, Diameter 24 cm. Dated 1789, with the Mark of the Gilder H.-M. Prévost. (Royal Collection).]
Attributed works:
25. Detail from Rendez-vous de chasse, by Carel van Falens. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
26. Detail of One of a Pair of Flower vases (vase hollandois nouveau ovale). Sevres Porcelain. c.1759-61. Unmarked. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
27. The Toilet of Esther, after a Cartoon by J.-F. Detroy. Gobelins Tapestry, 472.5 by 380 cm. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
28. Le Déjeuner de la Sultane, Cartoon by Amédée Vanloo. Signed and Dated 1773. Part of the Series Le costume turc Woven at the Gobelins. (Musée du Louvre, Paris: On Loan to the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice).
Attributed works:
29. Plaque. Sèvres Porcelain, 40.5 by 48.5 cm. Painted by Pithou l'aîné. Signed and Dated 1783. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Plate, Part of Catherine II's Service. Sèvres Porcelain. Dated 1778, with the Marks of the Painter F.-P. Philippine and of the Gilder J.-P. Boulanger. (British Museum).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Plate, Part of Louis XVI's Service. Sèvres Porcelain. Dated 1784, with the Marks of the Painter C.-N. Dodin and of the Gilder E.-H. Leguay. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
5. L'amour vaincu par la chasse, Attributed to Lagrenée le jeune. Pen, Wash and Gouache on Paper, 24 by 66 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Ice-Pail, Part of Catherine II's Service. Sèvres Porcelain. Dated 1778, with the Marks of C.-N. Dodin and Another Unidentified Painter and of the Gilders, E.-H. Leguay and J.-P. Boulanger. (Wallace Collection).
Attributed works:
7. Flower Vase (Cuvette Courteille), One of a Pair with Fig. 8. Sèvres Porcelain. 18.8 by 29.2 cm. Dated 1788, with the Mark of the Painter Antoine Caton. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Flower Vase (Cuvette Courteille), One of a Pair with Fig. 7. Sèvres Porcelain. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen.
Attributed works:
9. Plaque. Sèvres Porcelain. Diameter 9.4 cm. c.1795. Initialled P. P. (Perhaps for Mlle Parpette l'aînée). Detail of Fig. 11. (Royal Collection). Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. the Queen. [Luison Parpette? Philippe Parpette?]
Western art unattributed:
12. Vase of Flowers, by Unknown Artist. Oil on Canvas, 163.8 by 175.9 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres).
Western art unattributed:
13. Vase of Flowers with Fruit, by Unknown Artist. Oil on Canvas, 163.2 by 186.1 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres).
Western art unattributed:
17. Allegory of Night, by an Unknown Artist. 31.1 by 44.5 cm. (Manufacture Nationale, Sèvres).