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- Thirty-five plaques and two trays mounted in a cabinet
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1766
- C500
- European Armoury III
- Bookmarkable URLThirty-five plaques and two trays mounted in cabinet F71. Decorated with green-ground borders and painted in white reserves with sprays of flowers. The reserves are edged with gilded bands; there are gilded borders over the green ground of foliage and flowers.
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- Toilet Service
- Two Boîtes à poudre, Two pots à pommade, Two boîtes à mouches, porte brosse, and à dessus de vergett
- Manufacture de Sèvres
- Sèvres, France
- 1763
- C458-65
- European Armoury III
- Bookmarkable URLVincennes and Sèvres toilet wares were for the cosmetics and hair preparations used during the lengthy ritual of the toilette. In the eighteenth century this was undertaken before courtiers, friends and tradesmen.
This set comprises eight items; Two large powder boxes are decorated with heads of corn in relief on the top, as the face and hair powder was commonly made from starch. Gold mounts would provide an airtight seal to keep the contents dry and prevent mites fom infesting the product. The two tall pomade pots would have contained hair and face gease or face creams, and the two smaller boxes were for 'mouches', the black face patches worn by fashionable women at the time. The set also comprises a small brush for removing wig powder and a clothes brush.
All pieces are decorated with a green ground, highlighted with gilding and pained with sprays of flowers.
The service may have been intended for Madame de Pompadour, but was left incomplete on her death in 1764, subsequently being sold in 1767 to the dealer Rouveau. He in turn sold it to Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720 - 82) for whom it was fitted in a toilet table with matching porcelain plaques (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Sir Richard Wallace acquired it in 1872 and had a storage case made for the items.
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