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Seau a bouteille
Wine cooler from the Prince de Rohan service
Seau a bouteille
French
about 1771
Object Place: Europe, France
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain, overglaze enamels, gilding
Dimensions
17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John Fox
Accession Number46.8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionCircular with molded rim (cracked) white & gold shell handles at sides, molded foot. Turquoise-blue glaze with circular medallion on each side depicting branches with birds, in gilded wreath of leaves. Under handles monogram P L R in gold (Prince Louis de Rohan, or Louis-Rene-Edouard, Cardinal de Rohan).
Marks
Marked in blue indistinctly on bottom, with interlaced Ls, painter's mark of a dagger below (Etienne Evans?) in blue enamel.
Provenance1772, commissioned by Louis-René-Edouard, Prince de Rohan (b. 1734 – d. 1803), Vienna [see note 1]. By 1870, Anatole Nicolaievitch Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (b. 1813 – d. 1870), Florence; March 23, 1870, Demidoff sale, Charles Pillet and Charles Mannheim, Paris, included in lots 118-153, to William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (b. 1817 – d. 1885), Dudley House, London [see note 2]. October 21, 1891, sold by S. Wertheimer & Sons, London, to Leopold de Rothschild (b. 1845 – d. 1917), London [see note 3]; 1917, by inheritance to his widow, Marie (Perugia) de Rothschild (b. 1862 – d. 1937), London; 1937, by inheritance to her son, Anthony de Rothschild (b. 1887 – d. 1961), Ascott House, England [see note 4]; March 1939, sold by Anthony de Rothschild to Rosenbaum, N.V., Amsterdam (stock no. 12) [see note 5]; Between 1939 and 1943, and probably about 1939, shipped by Rosenbaum, N.V., to Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York [see note 6]; September 28, 1943, consigned by Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. to French & Company, New York [see note 7]; July 3, 1944, sold by Rosenbaum, N.V., to Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. (stock no. 180) [see note 8]; July 3, 1944, sold by Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. to French & Company (stock no. 43645) [see note 9]; January 1946, sold by French & Company to John Fox, Boston; 1946, gift of John Fox to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 10, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] These dishes were part of a 368-piece dessert service ordered by Louis-René-Edouard in 1771, the year of his appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Viennese Court. The service was delivered by Sèvres on September 7, 1772. See "Les Grands Services de Sèvres" exh. cat., Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, May 25 - July 29, 1951, p. 32, no. 7. See MFA object nos. 46.6 - 46.7, 65.1854 - 65.1855, and 65.1894 - 65.1895, which came from the same service.
[2] Buyer information is according to a handwritten annotation in the auction catalogue. Lots 118 to 153 consisted of 172 pieces from the original 368-piece dessert service.
[3] According to a S. Wertheimer & Sons receipt in the Rothschild Archive, London, RAL000/1373/8/2. See also a 1917 inventory of Leopold de Rothschild’s art collection at 5 Hamilton Place, London in the Rothschild Archive, RAL 000/400/3&4, p. 52-53.
[4] Leopold de Rothschild’s will stipulated the all art objects and furniture in 5 Hamilton Place went to his wife, Marie (Perugia) de Rothschild (see Rothschild Archive, London, RAL000/66/1). After her death, in July 1927, an inventory of 5 Hamilton Place was created (Rothschild Archive, London, RAL 000/400/7, p. 140). The dessert service was inherited by her son, Anthony (see Rothschild Archive, London, RAL 000/228, XI/35/29 and XI/15/76/6).
[5] According to Rosenbaum, N.V.’s ledger. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Ledgers-Purchases and Sales, 1944-1947.
[6] Rosenbaum, N.V. and Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. were owned and run by members of the Rosenberg family. Saemy Rosenberg and Eric Stiebel were shareholders of Rosenbaum, N.V., and it is possible, if not likely, that the porcelain was shipped to New York shortly after being acquired. By July 9, 1943, French & Company, New York had received five pieces of the service from Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., for examination. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[7] According to letters between Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. and French & Company in the Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[8] According to Rosenbaum, N.V.’s and Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.’s ledgers. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[9] French & Company purchased the service from Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. in three groups of objects paid in four installments between July 3, 1944 and August 1, 1945, although the service was physically with French and Company by the time of the first payment. See Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, French & Co. Stock Sheets (840027), Box 52, Folder 4 and Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Ledgers-Purchases and Sales, 1944-1947 and Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
Many thanks are extended to MacKenzie Mallon for sharing her research from the Rothschild Archive, Frick Art Reference Library Archives, and Getty Research Institute, Special Collections.
NOTES:
[1] These dishes were part of a 368-piece dessert service ordered by Louis-René-Edouard in 1771, the year of his appointment as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Viennese Court. The service was delivered by Sèvres on September 7, 1772. See "Les Grands Services de Sèvres" exh. cat., Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, May 25 - July 29, 1951, p. 32, no. 7. See MFA object nos. 46.6 - 46.7, 65.1854 - 65.1855, and 65.1894 - 65.1895, which came from the same service.
[2] Buyer information is according to a handwritten annotation in the auction catalogue. Lots 118 to 153 consisted of 172 pieces from the original 368-piece dessert service.
[3] According to a S. Wertheimer & Sons receipt in the Rothschild Archive, London, RAL000/1373/8/2. See also a 1917 inventory of Leopold de Rothschild’s art collection at 5 Hamilton Place, London in the Rothschild Archive, RAL 000/400/3&4, p. 52-53.
[4] Leopold de Rothschild’s will stipulated the all art objects and furniture in 5 Hamilton Place went to his wife, Marie (Perugia) de Rothschild (see Rothschild Archive, London, RAL000/66/1). After her death, in July 1927, an inventory of 5 Hamilton Place was created (Rothschild Archive, London, RAL 000/400/7, p. 140). The dessert service was inherited by her son, Anthony (see Rothschild Archive, London, RAL 000/228, XI/35/29 and XI/15/76/6).
[5] According to Rosenbaum, N.V.’s ledger. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Ledgers-Purchases and Sales, 1944-1947.
[6] Rosenbaum, N.V. and Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. were owned and run by members of the Rosenberg family. Saemy Rosenberg and Eric Stiebel were shareholders of Rosenbaum, N.V., and it is possible, if not likely, that the porcelain was shipped to New York shortly after being acquired. By July 9, 1943, French & Company, New York had received five pieces of the service from Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., for examination. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[7] According to letters between Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. and French & Company in the Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[8] According to Rosenbaum, N.V.’s and Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.’s ledgers. See Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
[9] French & Company purchased the service from Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. in three groups of objects paid in four installments between July 3, 1944 and August 1, 1945, although the service was physically with French and Company by the time of the first payment. See Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, French & Co. Stock Sheets (840027), Box 52, Folder 4 and Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, MS.065, Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive, Ledgers-Purchases and Sales, 1944-1947 and Subject Files-French & Company, 1942-1956.
Many thanks are extended to MacKenzie Mallon for sharing her research from the Rothschild Archive, Frick Art Reference Library Archives, and Getty Research Institute, Special Collections.