A HAVILAND LIMOGES GILT PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE COMMISSIONED FOR OTTOMAN...
A HAVILAND LIMOGES GILT PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE COMMISSIONED FOR OTTOMAN SULTAN MURAD V
France, Limoges, late 19th-early 20th century
Fine china, the exterior decorated in the Baroque style with large gilt-framed reserves enclosing a crowned monogram against a plain ground, alternating with cartouches containing polychrome floral festoons, all set against a rose-powder ground enriched with gilt floral ribbons, the inner rim, where present, is decorated in the Haviland Salon Murat style with scrolls of neoclassical inspiration, the reverse bears the Haviland France mark (a version used circa 1894–1931) together with the inscription Mir S. Cottereau.
The set includes: 12 teacups (5cm high); 12 saucers (14.2cm diameter); a teapot (lidded, 18cm high); a milk jug (10.5cm high); a lidded sugar bowl (12.5cm high); (29 pieces total, including two lids)
Cottereau refers to to a prominent French merchant house—most notably associated with the trader Charles-Eugène Cottereau and the later firm Mir Cottereau - that operated as a luxury importer and commissionaire in Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman elite and imperial court had an immense appetite for high-end European lifestyle goods. Operating out of Constantinople, the Cottereau trading house (Cottereau Ticarethanesi) acted as a key middleman, custom-ordering and importing prestigious French Haviland Limoges porcelain directly to the Ottoman market.
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A HAVILAND LIMOGES GILT PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE COMMISSIONED FOR OTTOMAN SULTAN MURAD V
France, Limoges, late 19th-early 20th century
Fine china, the exterior decorated in the Baroque style with large gilt-framed reserves enclosing a crowned monogram against a plain ground, alternating with cartouches containing polychrome floral festoons, all set against a rose-powder ground enriched with gilt floral ribbons, the inner rim, where present, is decorated in the Haviland Salon Murat style with scrolls of neoclassical inspiration, the reverse bears the Haviland France mark (a version used circa 1894–1931) together with the inscription Mir S. Cottereau.
The set includes: 12 teacups (5cm high); 12 saucers (14.2cm diameter); a teapot (lidded, 18cm high); a milk jug (10.5cm high); a lidded sugar bowl (12.5cm high); (29 pieces total, including two lids)
Cottereau refers to to a prominent French merchant house—most notably associated with the trader Charles-Eugène Cottereau and the later firm Mir Cottereau - that operated as a luxury importer and commissionaire in Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman elite and imperial court had an immense appetite for high-end European lifestyle goods. Operating out of Constantinople, the Cottereau trading house (Cottereau Ticarethanesi) acted as a key middleman, custom-ordering and importing prestigious French Haviland Limoges porcelain directly to the Ottoman market.
Provenance:
From the property of a private collector.
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Time, Location
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