French│Empire Collection
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A small private Napoleonic collection in Sydney, Australia
A pair of Sevres reticulated gold baskets dated 1811 and 1812
Une paire de Sèvres réticulée paniers d'or du 1811 et 1812
Une paire de Sèvres réticulée paniers d'or du 1811 et 1812
Pair of Sevres reticulated gold baskets
Sevres, Manufacture Imperiale
1811 and 1812
15cm ht. 23cm dia.
The baskets, in an almost Egyptian style, are designed in a flaring cylindrical form sitting on a roped foot and are heavily gilded. They may have been part of a larger table service. Sometime after the fall of the Empire they have had the ‘M. Imple.’ (Imperial Manufacture) of the Sevres factory mark removed from the based to better suit the new political climate!
The basket dated 1812 bares the incised mark of ‘tt’ of Charles Thévenot fils aîné
and he is recorded to have worked at Sèvres as a repairer and burnisher between 1787-