The Duchesse de Berry’s Porcelain Orchard by Sèvres

Published on 11 March 2021, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 23 March 2021 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

The Duchess of Berry, who had a green thumb, enjoyed fruit attractively presented in their foliage nest on plates. Who will be the next to yield to their succulent charms?

Manufacture Royale de Sèvres, 1825-1826, six hard porcelain plates from the Duchesse... The Duchesse de Berry’s Porcelain Orchard by Sèvres

Manufacture Royale de Sèvres, 1825-1826, six hard porcelain plates from the Duchesse de Berry’s service, polychrome decoration by … (reproduced) on a lapis blue ground highlighted by a frieze of gold foliage and palmettos around the edge, some plates are signed by the painter "Jaccober", Charles X period, diam. 23.5 cm (9.25 in).
Estimate: €15,000/18,000

Juicy figs, full-bodied grapes, apples, pears, deep red cherries, flowering strawberries, plump greengage plums, deliciously velvety peaches, split-open pomegranates and many other fruits illustrating the beauty of varieties with nuts, seeds, pits and pips: all these mouth-watering specimens so redolent of summer can be found on the plates of a dessert service with "a lapis blue ground, gold ornamentation and fruits painted on leaves" made by the Sèvres manufactory. The manufactory’s highly detailed archives tell us that the set was delivered to its shop on December 20, 1825. It included 48 dessert plates, an oval dish, 12 stemmed compotiers, two jasmine baskets, two ice buckets, four fruit…

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