SEVRES Porcelain cabaret including an Asselin... Lot 59

SEVRES Porcelain cabaret including an Asselin teapot, a Greek milk jug, a hemispherical fruit bowl, six tea cups and their saucers, decorated with profiles in octagonal reserves in imitation of the cameo and decorated with lyres in round reserves, standing out on a gold background enhanced with palms and flowery braid in gold amati. On the edge and inside the cups and the fruit bowl, green scrolls on an amatized background. At the pedestals, frieze of green and gold palms. Scroll on the handle of the teapot. Marked on the back of the Imperial Manufacture with the red stamp. Paintings by Joseph Deutsch. 19th century, 1812, 1813 -Asselin teapot: not marked. Height. Height : 21 cm -Greek milk pot : marked in red. Height : 20,7 cm. Height : 20,7 cm -Hemispheric fruit bowl : marked in red 1812. Height : 13,4 cm 13,4 cm ; Width : 19,5 cm -Cups : all marked. Height : 7,5 cm. Height : 7,5 cm. One of the handles is glued back. -Under cups : 4 marked 1812. Diameter : 15 cm. Shock not through the reverse of one, braid broken at 6 o'clock and 6 o'clock minus 20 on another. Cf: This cabaret created during the year 1812 was offered by the empress Marie-Louise to one of her ladies of the palace, the countess of Brignole on the occasion of the New Year's Day 1813. It first appears in the Register of the work of the workshops Vj'19 (f°173v), where we learn that it was decorated by Joseph Deutsch between July and December 1812, which is confirmed by the sheet of appreciation where it is described as "cameo, ornaments imitating the gilding relief, frieze in green" (Pb2, 1812, N°184). It was then delivered to the sales store on December 24 with 12 cups (Vu1, f°138v, l. 21), before being sent to the Tuileries on December 28 to be offered. The registers concerning the sales of the year 1812 and the sales on credit then mention only 6 cups for this set "gold bottom with rich matt ornaments", to which a sheet metal tray was added, the whole for 1270 francs (Vy21, f°31v and Vbb4, f°12r). The sugar pot mentioned among the pieces of forms is now missing. The countess of Brignole was Anna Pieri Brignole Sale (1765-1815). Originally from Genoa where she led a lavish life since the late eighteenth century, the Countess of Brignole was a woman of letters, fervent Bonapartist who moved to Paris where she became lady-in-waiting to Empress Marie-Louise in 1810. The countess being close to Talleyrand and being involved in politics, Napoleon called upon her knowledge of court usages to guide his diplomacy. She remained faithful to the Emperor and died in Vienna in 1815. Bibliography -LEPRINCE (Camille), Napoleon I and Sèvres. L'art de la porcelaine au service de l'Empire, Paris, Feu et Talent, 2016, p. 326, cat. 108. (Note: The cabaret decoration described "en camaïeu" is actually to be read "en camée" in Vu1).