A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan. - image-1
A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan. - image-2
A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan. - image-1A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan. - image-2

Lot 932 Nα

A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan.

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 14:30 - Porcelain, Ceramics, Furniture, Bronzes, Carpets
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan.

A Sèvres soft paste porcelain plate from the service for Prince Louis de Rohan. Monogrammed "LPR" to the centre. The border decorated with birds in reserves on a "bleu celeste" ground. Double-L mark, year mark KK, painter's mark blue enamel Y, incised 24. Minor losses to the gilding, retouched to the monogram. Diameter 25.3 cm.
1788, a subsequent order for the service of 1771 - 72, probably painted by Edme-Francois Bouilliat, père.

Provenance

The Julius Rueber-Suter Collection.

Literature

For this painter, cf.: Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, vol III., London 1988, p.1002 ff.
Further items from this service are kept in the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, the Louvre, the Musée National Céramique de Sèvres and the English Royal Collection in Windsor Castle. 54 plates and head pieces from the service in: Dautermann, The Wrightsman Collection, New York 1970, no. 109, p. 261 ff.