Beschreibung:

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE 'OEIL DE PERDRIX' ORNITHOLOGICAL PART DESSERT SERVICE CIRCA 1782-86, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS, MOST ENCLOSING DATE LETTER EE, HH OR II, VARIOUS PAINTER'S MARKS, MOST WITH GILDER'S MARKS FOR VINCENT PERE, GIRARD, OR LA FRANCE Based on images found in The Natural History of Birds by the Comte de Buffon, each painted with a bird reserved within a gilt medallion, the bleu celéste oeil de perdix border punctuated with similar reserves, all the birds identified in French on the reverse, comprising: A large punch bowl (jatte à punch) , the interior painted with four small birds Two variant mortiers (mortier) Two bottle coolers (seau à demi-bouteille) A pair of two-handled ice-pails, covers and liners (seau à glace) , the covers with circles of oeil de perdrix decoration to the undersides Two monteiths, the interiors painted with flower sprays (seau crénelé) An oval liqueur-bottle cooler (seau ovale) Two sugar-bowls and covers on fixed stands (sucrier de M. le Premier) Two double jam pots and covers on fixed stands (plateau à deux pots de confiture) Two triple jam-pots on fixed stands (plateau à trois pots de confiture) Four shell-shape dishes (compotier coquille) Four shaped-oval dishes (compotier ovale) Four shaped-square dishes (compotier carré) Four circular dishes (compotier rond) Twenty-four dinner plates (assiettes) Eleven dessert plates (assiettes à dessert) 12 ¾ in. (32.3 cm.) diameter, the punch bowl Provenance Ordered by Louis-Philippe de Bourbon, duc de Chartres, for the wife of Nathaniel Parker Forth, British Envoy to France. Alfred de Rothschild, Halton House, Buckinghamshire, by 1918. Thence by descent. Acquired from Segoura, Paris, 1990.