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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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Savill, Rosalind (Savill, Rosalind)
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Illustrations
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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).
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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).
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11. Centre row: details of Figs.2 and 7, showing the face of Madame de Courteille aged thirty-four and thirty-eight respectively.
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12. Bottom row: details of Figs.2 and 7, showing the green ringneck parakeet.
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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).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing the central scene of a child painter and sitter.
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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).
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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).
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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).
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18. Details of Figs.14 and 2, showing the young girls.
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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).
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2. Top tray of Fig.1.
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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).
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21. Charles Mills and his family at Hillingdon Court. Photograph, late 1850s. (Hillingdon Council, Museums and Archives Services, Uxbridge Library).
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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).
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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’).
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3. Detail of the bottom tray of Fig.1.
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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).
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5. Reverse of Fig.7, showing inscription and factory mark (upside down).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).