SEVERED. Rare and important CABARET for the EMPEROR'S... Lot 101

SEVERED. Rare and important CABARET for the EMPEROR'S MOUTH SERVICE in hard porcelain composed of seventeen pieces including : a sugar jar "with volute handle", a teapot "Asselin", a fruit bowl "hemispherical", a milk jar called "cone creamer jar", a coffee pot, twelve cups "litrons" and their saucers, polychrome and gold decoration of rectangular cartouches surrounded by gold garlands and decorated with figurative scenes in the Pompeian style, connected by flowery garlands on which birds are perched. The shaped pieces are decorated with four cartouches, the cups are decorated with two cartouches, all of which are different. The decoration is painted by Christophe Ferdinand Caron (1791-1815), who specialized in painting birds. 1803-1804 Mark: "Mre Nle. De Sevres -II" All the pieces are marked except for one cup. Sugar pot "a pied anse volute", high. 16.3 cm high, handle: 14.4 cm, diam. base: 6.3 cm; Teapot "Asselin", handle: 20.6 cm high, diam. base: 7.6 cm; Fruit bowl "hemispherical", high. Milk jug "Cone cream pot", high. handle: 13.1 cm, diam. base: 13.6 cm, diam. base: 5.6 cm; Coffee pot, high. handle: 23 cm; Cup "litron", high. handle: 7.1 cm, diam.: 7.4 cm; saucer, high. Diameter : 15.7 cm ; Excellent condition. For the sugar bowl: small crack starting from the handle and going up to the neck. One replacement cup and saucer marked "halley". Provenance - entered the factory's sales shop on 21 ventose year 12 (12 March 1804), - delivered to the service of the Mouth of the Imperial House on 1 January 1805, - public sale, Savot study, Orleans, 11 April 1997, - Orleans collection. Rare and important Sevres porcelain cabaret decorated with birds by Christophe Ferdinand Caron, Empire period. Extension : - 360� view on rouillac.com, - test by the expert Camille Leprince. Bibliography : Napoleon I & Sevres. L'art de la porcelaine au service de l'Empire, Camille Leprince (sous la dir.), Feu et Talent, Paris, 2016. The present cabaret is the o