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| A Chantilly Kakiemon Porcelain Desk Set
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Circa 1740
Iron-red hunting horn mark to each piece
Height: 3.5 inches (9.0 cm)
Width: 9.4 inches (23.8 cm)
Depth 5.9 inches (14.8 cm)
Condition: Small chip to sconce restored, the cover of the ink well broken neatly in two and restuck.
This piece would appear to be a unique model, as no other example is recorded.
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Formed as a pen tray with a single candle nozzle centered behind and flanked by a sander and inkwell cover in the form of figs set into two wells, enamelled overall in kakiemon colours with the quail pattern, insects and flowers on a tin glaze.
The Chantilly porcelain factory was founded in 1730 under the protection of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon and Prince de Condé (1692-1740), at his château in Chantilly north of Paris, after his exile from the court in 1726. A keen collector of Japanese porcelain, the Duke’s initial motive for starting the enterprise was to produce soft-paste porcelain in emulation of his imported pieces, particularly those decorated in the Kakiemon style of sparse floral and figurative decoration in a palette of red, green, blue and yellow on a creamy white ground – of which this inkwell is a superb example. The factory declined after the Duke’s death and the development of the Vincennes-Sèvres factory under royal patronage in the late 1740s and 50s, but it remained active up until the Revolution.
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