Déjeuner Bolvry 1780-83
Hard paste porcelain, white ground and gilded decoration | Tray 8.2 x 57.1 x 36.2, tea pot 12.9 x 16.9 x 9.9, milk jug 12.0 x 11.7 x 9.1, sugar bowl 11.3 x 9.4, .1–.4 cups 5.9 to 6.0 x 7.7 to 7.9 x 5.8 to 5.9, .1–.4 saucers 2.7 to 2.9 x 12.2 to 12.6 cm (whole object) | RCIN 5000034
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Hard paste Sèvres cabaret. White ground decoration composed of a trellis pattern of gilded rods with stylised rosettes at the crossings, enclosing in each compartment a semée of blue dots within a gilded frame with incurved corners. Gilded dentelle border composed of stylised leaf trails and rosettes encircles the reserves. The bands framing the reserves are tooled with two burnished lines feathered on one side only and interrupted by crossed ribbons at four points. The palette of the polychrome painting is composed of contrasting colours of brick red, deep mauve, green, purple, yellow and crimson. The scenes are painted on islands, as if floating in space. Tray, tea pot,1 milk jug, sugar bowl and cover, 4 cups and saucers
Provenance
Possibly bought for George IV by François Benois in Paris on 16 May 1814: ‘1 Cabaret de Sevres complet porcelaine Blanche dorée et figures 500 francs’. Recorded in 1826 in the Bow Room, Basement Floor, Carlton House: ‘No. 85. A Dejeuni of Seve Porcelain consisting of a large Plateau with scroll leaf handles, the edge banded with narrow figuered [sic] pink ribbon, Teapot, Sugar Bason and Cover, Cream Ewer, four Cups and Saucers, the whole painted in Compartments of Chinese Subjects’.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(nationality)(porcelain painter)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Hard paste porcelain, white ground and gilded decoration
Measurements
Tray 8.2 x 57.1 x 36.2, tea pot 12.9 x 16.9 x 9.9, milk jug 12.0 x 11.7 x 9.1, sugar bowl 11.3 x 9.4, .1–.4 cups 5.9 to 6.0 x 7.7 to 7.9 x 5.8 to 5.9, .1–.4 saucers 2.7 to 2.9 x 12.2 to 12.6 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
Alternative title(s)
Tray and tea service
Place of Production
Sèvres [France]
