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Jatte à glace (part of a service à dessert) early nineteenth century
Soft-paste porcelain, dark blue ground and burnished gilded decoration | 24.0 x 20.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 20298
Style of Sèvres porcelain factory
Jatte à glace (part of a service à dessert) early nineteenth century
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Sèvres-style soft paste porcelain ice pail in three parts; cover, lining and pail. Dark blue ground with bunished gilded decoration, polychrome decoration composed of putti in oval reserves, baskets and bunches of flowers, laurel wreaths and berries painted naturalistically and taut garlands of flowers. Putti reserves alternate with wreaths and baskets of flowers. The cover, whose sides splay out towards the top, is fitted in its sunken centre with a finial. The pail, of shallow vase shape with a drum-shaped neck, is fitted with two handles, each formed by two branches meeting at the top in a disc encircled by white pearls. The short stem splays out to the rounded foot.
Provenance
Purchased in Paris for George IV by François Benois. The entry in his statement of account headed ‘Compte des Porcelaines acheptees Par Ordre de Sa Majesty pour Windsor’, dated 23 October 1824, reads: ‘Un Service de Porcelaine de Sevres à Cartels d’Enfans et fleurs composé de 131 Pieces £400’. Recorded in the Confectionary, Carlton House: ‘No. 135. A Dessert Service of Seve Porcelain, painted in Roses, and blue borders, with Bouquets of Heartsease in the Centre, Consisting of: 7 Dozen of Plates; 4 Oval Compotiers; 4 Square Compotiers; 4 Round Do.; 4 Shell Do.; 2 Ice Pails and Covers; 2 Salad Bowls; 2 Coolers; 4 Small Do.; 14 Ice Cups; 2 Plateaux to Do.; 2 Muffin Plates and Covers; 2 Sugar Terrines with their Plateaux and Covers’.
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Medium and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, dark blue ground and burnished gilded decoration
Measurements
24.0 x 20.3 cm (whole object)
24.3 x 22.0 cm (whole object)
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