A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN CHROME-GREEN GROUND PART TEA SERVICE (CABARET 'BONAPARTE')

A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN CHROME-GREEN GROUND PART TEA SERVICE (CABARET \'BONAPARTE\')

Iron-red stenciled factory marks for 1812 and green painted ground color mark of 13.Ms.12 for 13 March 1812 to each piece, various incised date cyphers and repairer\'s marks, the portraits by Le Guay and Jaquotot, the silver-gilt handles with maker\'s mark for Pierre-Noël Blaguière used post 1803

Finely painted with portraits of Emperor Napoleon I and his family, most after paintings by Jean-Baptiste Isabey or Baron François Pascal Gérard and identified in French on the underside, each reserved on the green ground decorated in platinum and gilt with a trellis enclosing bees, each cup with its original silver-gilt handle, comprising:

A tea-pot and cover (théière \'Asselin\') - Napoleon I and Marie-Louise

A milk-jug (pot à lait \'Grec\') - Elisa Bonaparte

A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre \'à pied anse volute\' et son couvercle) - the Roi de Rome and his aunt Caroline Bonaparte

Three cups and two saucers (tasse \'Jasmin à pied cannelé\', 1ere grandeur et sa soucoupe) - Pauline Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais and Catherine Frederica of Württemberg

Together with:

A Sèvres chrome-green ground saucer of similar date, the decoration slightly variant to the other two in the present part service but identical to that accompanying a blue-ground portrait cup of Marie-Louise by Le Guay offered as the previous lot in this sale (11)