A Napoleon III Sevres Style Pink Porcelain Dessert Service Damascened meticulously applied to an oak

meticulously applied to an oak carcass

see ‘Study for Rao Ram Singh I hunting rhinoceros on an elephant’ at the Met Museum

Classic design inspired by Percier and Fontaine

A resplendent example of late 18th-century artistry

innovation

A Napoleon III Sevres Style Pink Porcelain Dessert Service Damascened meticulously applied to an oakA Napoleon III Sevres Style Pink Porcelain Dessert Service Marked Lerosey Rihouet, 11 Rue de la Paix France, circa 1870 Comprising a pair of compotes, a pair of tazze, a pair of tureens, twelve plates and twelve dessert bowls 23 cm diameter (plates), 18 cm diameter (bowls), 23 cm diameter, 12 cm high (tazza), 24 cm long, 15 cm deep, 14 cm high (tureen)