A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU CELESTE-GROUND SHELL-SHAPED DISHES FROM THE...
Each painted with pairs of colourful birds perched on branches in landscape, within a circular cartouche gilt with oak leaves issuing from an uprooted trunk, within gilt rims
85⁄8 in. (22cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired by Louis-René-Edouard, Prince (later Cardinal Prince) de Rohan in 1772.
Prince Anatole Demidov, Palazzo San Donato, Florence, sold; Pillet-Manheim, Paris, 23 March 1870, lot 135 (one illustrated) and possibly lot 136.
Possibly William, 1st Earl of Dudley, of Himley Hall, Dudley, Staffordshire.
Leopold de Rothschild, Exbury, Hampshire.
Anthony de Rothschild, Ascott Wing.
The Collection of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, sold Sotheby's New York, 29 April 1972, lot 127.
The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
The Collection of John D. Dorrance Jr., sold Sotheby's New York, 20 October 1989, lot 169.
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Each painted with pairs of colourful birds perched on branches in landscape, within a circular cartouche gilt with oak leaves issuing from an uprooted trunk, within gilt rims
85⁄8 in. (22cm.) wide
Provenance
Acquired by Louis-René-Edouard, Prince (later Cardinal Prince) de Rohan in 1772.
Prince Anatole Demidov, Palazzo San Donato, Florence, sold; Pillet-Manheim, Paris, 23 March 1870, lot 135 (one illustrated) and possibly lot 136.
Possibly William, 1st Earl of Dudley, of Himley Hall, Dudley, Staffordshire.
Leopold de Rothschild, Exbury, Hampshire.
Anthony de Rothschild, Ascott Wing.
The Collection of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, sold Sotheby's New York, 29 April 1972, lot 127.
The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
The Collection of John D. Dorrance Jr., sold Sotheby's New York, 20 October 1989, lot 169.
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