Auction on
04 November 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
Salle 6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
In October 1807, Napoleon ordered what would become known as the "Emperor’s private service” from the Sèvres factory. Of the more than 230 pieces, this plate featuring one of the Louvre’s rooms will be auctioned soon.
Manufacture impériale de Sèvres, 1808, hard porcelain dish, the rim decorated with a frieze of swords linked by a garland of laurel leaves and enriched by stars, the center adorned with a view painted by Jean-Claude Rumeau of Empress Josephine visiting the Victory Room at the Napoleon Museum, the bottom incised and painted in black with the "LL" monogram of Louis XVIII, diam. 23.5 cm/9.25 in. Estimate: €200,000/300,000
Manufacture impériale de Sèvres, 1808, hard porcelain dish, the rim decorated with a frieze of swords linked by a garland of laurel leaves and enriched by stars, the center adorned with a view painted by Jean-Claude Rumeau of Empress Josephine visiting the Victory Room at the Napoleon Museum, the bottom incised and painted in black with the "LL" monogram of Louis XVIII, diam. 23.5 cm/9.25 in. Estimate: €200,000/300,000
Napoleon thought big. Always keen to promote French arts and craftsmanship, he used them, in today’s parlance, as communication tools. Sèvres, which became a royal factory in 1759 and an imperial one in 1804, was indissociable from the sovereigns who funded it. From 1800 to 1847, its director was the brilliant, learned Alexandre Brongniart, son of the emperor’s architect Théodore Brongniart. He adapted to or even anticipated the ruler’s taste with new shapes, new colors, and hard porcelain as the main material. He created exceptional pieces, including some celebrating Napoleon’s campaigns and battlefield exploits. The "Emperor’s private service", from which our plate comes, is an example. It depicts Empress Josephine visiting the Winged Victory , Nike…
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