Details
In the Sèvres style, painted with bouquets, the rims with gilt cartouches enclosing further flowers, comprising: two ice-pails, covers and liners; two circular bases with paw feet; and six dessert-plates
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high, the ice-pails
Provenance
Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 October 2002, lot 1135 (the plates and circular bases).
Acquired from James Robinson, New York, November 2004 (the ice pails).
Literature
W. Adelson et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Supplement, New York, vol. V, 2015, p. 160, no. 64.
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