243
- Wine Bottle Cooler (seau ä bouteille
ordinaire)
Sevres manufactory, 1790
Model designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis;
painted decoration attributed to Charles-Eloi
Asselin after engraved designs by Charles
Monnet and Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre;
gilding attributed to Etienne-Henri Le Guay
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground
color; polychrome enamel decoration;
gilding
Bowl incised 38 underneath; foot ring
incised $. Monogram WJG for the owner
William J. Goode scratched on the under-
side in two places.
Height: y^7 /i6 in. (18.9 cm); Width: IO^3 /I 6 in.
(25.8 cm)
Accession number 82 .DE.5
PROVENANCE
Made for Louis XVI, ordered in 1783 for
the Chateau de Versailles and delivered in
December 1790; (?) Musée National, Paris,
sold 1797-1798; Robert Napier, Glasgow,
the Shandon collection, by 1862 (sold,
Christie's, London, April 11,1877, lot 347,
for £262 ios to Goode); William J. Goode,
London (sold, Christie's, London, July 17,
1895, lot 136, for 230 guineas to Waller);
T. W. Waller, Esq. (sold, Christie's, London,
June 8,1910, lot 171, for £630 to A. Wert-
heimer); [Asher Wertheimer, London] (sold,
Christie's, London, June 16,1920, lot 30, for
£84 to Clements); private collection (sold
as nineteenth century, Sotheby's, Begravia,
April 24,1980, lot 162); private collection,
England (sold, Sotheby's, London, Octo-
ber 21,1980, lot 207); [Winifred Williams,
Ltd., London, 1980].
EXHIBITIONS
London, The South Kensington Museum,
Special Loan Exhibition of Works of Art,
June 1862, no. 1323, p. 122; Leeds, England,
Exhibition Offices, National Exhibition of
Works of Art at Leeds, 1868, no. 2102 or 2103
under Ornamental Arts, p. 262, loaned by
Robert Napier.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. C. Robinson, Catalogue of the Works of
Art Forming the Collection of Robert Napier
(London, 1865), no. 3501 or 3502, p. 260;
Adrian Sassoon, "Two Acquisitions of
Sevres Porcelain," GettyMusJ\o (1982),
pp. 91-94, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 48,
pp. 96-97, illus.; Geoffrey de Bellaigue,
Sevres Porcelain in the Collection of Her
Majesty the Queen: The Louis XVI Service
(Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 149,
pp. 28, 45, 52, 55-56, 64, 222, 259, 266;
Handbook 1986, p. 178, illus.; Sassoon,
Vincennes and Sevres Porcehin, no. 29,
pp. 146-150, illus. pp. 147,149,151; Hand-
book 1991, p. 197, illus.
Cooler .1 244
- Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (seaux ä
demi-bouteittes ordinaires)
Sevres manufactory, 1791
Model designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis;
gilded by Jean-Jacques Dieu
Hard-paste porcelain, black ground color;
platinum and gold decoration
Each cooler painted underneath with the
gold crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory
enclosing the date letters 00 in gold for
1792-1793, all under a crown for hard paste;
each cooler also painted with Dieu's tri-
angular mark (abraded on one). Répareurs
mark AB incised on one; BS incised on
the other.
FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES 147
