Rare And Important Paris Porcelain Veilleuse, first quarter 19th century, the atelier of Darte Freres, Palais Royal, red stenciled mark on underside of godet and plinth, the teapot painted with a continuous marsh landscape, the gilt crenellated pedestal depicting acolorful and humorous vignette from the "Comedia Della Arte" and a night scene with a house in the foreground, on a circular plinth, h. 9in, dia. 4.75in . On March 18, 2001, a veilleuse painted by the atelier of Darte Freres was sold at the New Orleans Auction Company.  Darte Freres was known for the exquisite ìchiaroscuroî rendering of a magician and jester who appear in a series of ìstoriesî on the atelier's porcelain. (The fabulous example in New Orleans was estimated at $1,800 to $2,500, and was hammered down at $2,200.)	AN ASSEMBLED PARIS (DARTE FRERES) PALE-BLUE GROUND MONOGRAMED PART DESSERT SERVICE Circa 1810, iron-red uppercase stencilled mark to most pieces of form, the plates later replacements with iron-red retailer's mark for C. Richard The matte pale-blue border within gilt bands, gilt, chased and enriched in black and iron-red with a band of matte rosesttes on a polished gilt medallion alternate with stylized scrolls and scepters centering a palmette, the polished gilt shoulders reserved with a vine, the socles with overlapping gilt and gilt-enriched stiff leaves, the script monogram 'CL' on the white ground, comprising: A pair of icepails, covers and liners, 15¾in. (40cm.) high; A pair of oval two-handled monteiths, 12¾in. (32.4cm.) long overall A pair of oval footed baskets, 10 7/8in. (27.7cm.) high, 14½in. (36.8cm.) long;  Two sauce-tureens and covers on fixed stands, 13 7/8in. (35.2cm.) long, the stand;  A footed bowl, 9½in. (24.1cm.) high, 13¾in. (34.9cm.) diam.;  Two low footed compotes, 6½in. (16.5cm.) high, 12¼in. (31.1cm.) diam.; Two shell-shaped dishes, 12¼in. (31.1cm.) long; Twelve deep plates, 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diam.; Twelve dessert plates, 9in. (22.8cm.) diam. (39) Circa 1810, iron-red uppercase stencilled mark to most pieces of form, the plates later replacements with iron-red retailer's mark for C. Richard This set was offered  at Gleneagles Sale L09556 -"Firth", Nov-1999 lot 116 Paris part table service £6,000-£8,000 $25,000 - 35,000  Princess Pia di Savoia  Christies May 2001 They failed to sell in NY and came up again in Stuggart Sale 381S lots 347-351   Sept 2001 est Dm26,800
4 very strange pots marked Darte	Found on The Antiques Road Show

Service de porcelaine de DARTE à Paris, peint de groupes de fleurs au naturel sur fonds de paysage dans des panneaux bordés de dorure, le fond bleu marine à large frise de palmettes et fleurs. (petit éclat à une tasse). Début du XIXe siècle. Haut. verseuse : 21 cm - Haut. bol : 22,8 cm.  6 000/8 000 Lot n° : 68 Adjudication : 24 000 FF   22/03/2000 - Paris Etude Libert & Castor

Manufacture de Darte Beau service à café comprenant : - une grande verseuse - un pot à lait - un sucrier couvert - six tasses à anses à enroulement et leurs soucoupes décoré en polychromie de natures mortes de fleurs posées sur des entablements à l'imitation du marbre dans de larges reserves entourées de palmettes et de rinceaux dorés sur fond bleu Epoque Premier empire ( certaine pièces marquées Darte, rue Vivienne) Lot n° : 115 Adjudication : 30 000 FF 16/04/2000 - 78000 Versailles Etude Perrin-Royere-Lajeunesse-Vergez-Honta

Part of a Darte Dessert Service with red marks

An unmarked dessert service

It is known that Caron's and Dagoty's workshops decorated some of Darte's dessert services and ornamental pieces.  It is also known that Darte provided much of the porcelain decorated by Feuillet of Rue de la Piax, who operated from about 1814.  He was one of the best decorators of the restoration period.  On the stylistic grounds (especially relating to the gilded borders)  it is likely that these pieces were produced by Feuillet working at Darte just before 1814 and from his own studio just after 1814

The son of the pastery chef for the prince de Condé, Jean-Pierre Feuillet (1777-1840) learned to paint at the school founded by the prince at his chateau outside Paris in Chantilly. On 20 July 1814, Feuillet set up shop in Paris on the rue de la Paix, under the protection of the prince. Feuillet gained a reputation as one of the best porcelain decorator's in the city, and this at the height of production in Paris. He used blanks from a variety of manufacturers including Nast and the Darte Frères, two of the best.

Rare Set of Six Darte Freres, Paris, Porcelain Dessert Plates, each with a different animal painting, each with a different gilded border on a beau bleu ground, dia. 9". [$4000/7000]  Sotheby's [New York] 27/Oct/2001 Lot No 54

TWELVE PARIS (DARTE FRERES) BLUE-GROUND PLATES 1804-1824, iron-red DARTE FRERES A PARIS stencilled marks Each cavetto painted overall with flowers and fruit in a landscape, some of the flowers growing, others arranged in a still life, two with still lives on a marble ledge, the blue border gilt and reserved with lozenges on a striated ground within burnished gilt bands 8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diam. (12) 10,000 - 15,000 U.S. dollars Oct 26, 2001 Christies  sold for $30,550 + commission ($36,000.00)

A SET OF SIX DARTE, PARIS PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL DESSERT PLATES  CIRCA 1810 each painted in the center with a different titled landscape roundel within a gilt foliate cobalt ground border, four with red stencilled marks DARTE F. or D.F., (one with a restored rim chip, two with minor hair cracks to rims).  diameter 8 5/8 in. (21.9cm.) Sothebys oct 2001   US $2,000 - US $3,000  (sold 1,920)

Darte Freres, Paris, Porcelain Topographical Plate, featuring the Chateau de Vincennes, marked on the reverse in rouge-de-fer: "Darte/Palais Royal/No. 21, unusual gilt black border, dia. 8.875in. $600/900  New Orleans Auction Galleries 22/Sep/2001 Lot No 765

Fine Darte Frores, Paris, Porcelain Footed Cooler, of vase form in "Anneau d'Or", first quarter 19th century, marked on the interior of the foot in black stencil: "Darte/Freres/... Paris", gilt-feathered river-god mask handles, retains the interior ice bowl, h. 12in, w. 11in. $2500/4000  New Orleans Auction Galleries 22/Sep/2001 Lot No 771

Porcelaine de Paris Les trois manufactures des Darte
Du premier établissement acheté rue de Charonne aux célèbres ateliers de la rue de la Roquette, les Darte comptèrent parmi les plus talentueux porcelainiers parisiens du début du XIXe siècle. Cette étude révèle l'originalité de leur production, riche et multiple, plusieurs fois primée aux expositions des Produits de l'industrie.
Par Régine de Plinval de Guillebon . L'âge d'or de la porcelaine de Paris est certainement le premier tiers du XIXe siècle et les noms des grands manufacturiers et marchands de cette époque sont bien connus : Dagoty, Nast, Schoelcher… Parmi eux, les Darte tiennent une place importante. Plusieurs porcelainiers portèrent ce nom. Ils ne dirigèrent pas moins de trois manufactures différentes et de nombreux magasins à Paris. Les Darte s'illustrèrent aussi comme doreurs et peintres-décorateurs.

La première manufacture des frères Darte, rue de Charonne et Palais égalité
Au commencement se trouvent trois frères. Originaires de Namur, alors aux Pays-Bas autrichiens, les trois frères Darte, Joseph (1765-1832), Louis Joseph (1766-1843) et Jean François (1768-1834) s'associèrent le 3 floréal an III (22 avril 1795) pour acheter une manufacture de porcelaine, située 3 rue de Charonne, au lieudit Fontarabie, près du boulevard de Charonne. Joseph, naturalisé en 1786, était qualifié de bottier, les deux autres frères de fabricants de porcelaine (Jean François travaillait alors dans la manufacture de la rue de la Pépinière). André Massonnet, dont on sait seulement qu'il n'exploitait la fabrique que depuis peu de temps, la vendit pour 70 000 francs en assignats, dont 30 000 au comptant. Pour ce prix, les Darte entraient en possession d'un four, des ustensiles, des moules et des marchandises déjà fabriquées. Puis ils reprirent le bail de la maison appartenant à l'ébéniste Cosson. Ils étaient jeunes - l'aîné avait juste 30 ans - intelligents et courageux.
Les trois frères installèrent un magasin au Palais Royal, alors Palais Egalité, à côté du Café Foy, sous la direction de Jean François. Le 1er août 1803, après huit ans de travail en commun, ils déclarèrent désirer faire chacun un établissement particulier et le 1er juillet 1804, firent un partage en nature du matériel et des marchandises.
La raison sociale Darte frères ne disparut pas pour autant, car Louis Joseph et Jean François formèrent une nouvelle société sous ce nom.

Darte aîné, rue de Popincourt : un second établissement.
Joseph Darte acheta le 28 décembre 1804 la manufacture de porcelaine de Maurice Coeurdassier, 26 rue de Popincourt (actuellement 14/16, rue de la Folie-Méricourt). Il fut dès lors connu sous le nom de Darte ............

Other Darte pieces sold	ARTS OF FRANCE Lo New York, Nov 02, 2000 L 219 9492ator A PAIR OF PARIS GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED MEDECI VASES  1815-1820, the porcelain probably Nast or Darte Freres, gilt lower case marks for the decorating house of Jean-Pierre Feuillet, rue de la Paix Each campagna vase with polished gilt everted mouth and socle foot, raised on a further square white base, the slightly flaring cylindrical neck painted in colours with a continuous rural landscape, one with figures fishing a stream as it meanders beside the ruins of a grand palace, the other a more pastoral view, perhaps taken from the other bank and showing the other side of the same ruins, gilt along the shoulder with Vetruvian scrolls and pendant flowers, bracket handles issuing from gilt biscuit bearded masks at the shoulder 131/8in. (33.4cm.) high (2) The son of the pastery chef for the prince de Condé, Jean-Pierre Feuillet (1777-1840) learned to paint at the school founded by the prince at his chateau outside Paris in Chantilly. On 20 July 1814, Feuillet set up shop in Paris on the rue de la Paix, under the protection of the prince. Feuillet gained a reputation as one of the best porcelain decorator's in the city, and this at the height of production in Paris. He used blanks from a variety of manufacturers including Nast and the Darte Frères, two of the best. The handles on the present vases with their finely undercut bearded masks are typical of the pieces produced by these premier firms.  See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïance et porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe - XIXe siècles, Paris, 1995, p. 360, figs. 259, 346, 348.
A PARIS PLATE BY DARTE FRERES, the centre painted, a panther in a landscape, the dark blue border with formal gilt decoration, 23.2cm, the underside painted 'Panterre' in black, and red stencilled 'Darte Palais Royale No. 21' £200-300 Phillips, Glamorgan  26 nov 1997	Paris porcelain Darte Frerer plate with orange and gilt band #20-30 Dreweatt Neate 17-OCT-00
An impressive Pair of Paris (Darte Freres) Table Centrepieces, circa 1815, with solid gilt grounds, modelled as circular classical pavilions, the domed roofs with a lattice design in white relief, supported on six marbled columns each surmounted by an eagle, the interior containing a gilded tripod, the feet with acanthus leaves and anthemions in white against the gilt ground, 39cm., red stencilled marks (both tripods and some columns replaced, two restored chips and restoration to damaged extremities) (2) £7000-9000 A consignment of Darte porcelain was sold in London by Mr Christie in April 1815. The sale included `Three elegant ornaments for a dessert in the form of Temples, white and gold and richly ornamented'. They sold for £117 6s 6d. See Geoffrey Godden, European Porcelain, p. 192(See Colour Illustration, Plate 7)   Phillips Bond St 10-DEC-97  LOT 187	137 2484 1804-1824, marked in overglaze red Darte Palais Royal No21 a pair of darte palais royal paris gilt metal-mounted chinoiserie two-handled vases 1804-1824, marked in overglaze red Darte Palais Royal No21 The dark blue ground flattened body painted in colours and decorated with trompe l'oeil cloisonné motifs depicting myriads of flowers, the front with an ogival-shaped cartouche depicting three gallant Orientals, the back with a winged griffin fighting a snake, the handles modelled as winged lion heads, the upright neck and the base with palmettes, on rectangular pedestal base supported by four claw feet, mounted to the top of the handles with scrolls and to the top of the edge with fruit and leaves 37.5cm high (2)Estimate 10,000 - 15,000 Dutch guilder (aka florin/gulden) d 8,191 Dutch guilder
Set of Eight Darte Freres Hard Paste Porcelain Plates, France, early 19th century, each with wide deep blue borders decorated with foliate designs, central French titled landscape cartouches of Italian scenes, red printed marks, (surface wear), dia. 8 1/2 in. $2500-3500 Skinner, Inc.  20-DEC-97	A Darte Paris Cabinet Cup and Saucer, circa 1830, the flared cup with rising scrolled eagle handle, richly decorated and painted en grisaille with stylised grotesques including classical figures on a red ground, below a border of running vitruvian scrolled flowers on a purple ground, divided by thin gold bands, with gilded interior, the saucer with similar decoration, printed mark in red (glaze crack to base of cup and slight wear to gold on well of saucer) (2) #200-300 Phillips Auctioneers Ltd - 'Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels'  16-SEP-98
A Darte Freres Cabinet Cup and Saucer,mid 19th Century,of inverse bell form, the high loop handle with shell and eagles' head terminals, the gilt ground painted with a panel of polychrome summer flowers, between gilt stiff leaf bands, on three lions paw feet, iron red factory marks,5 1/4in (13.3cm) height (2) £600-800 Bonhams 07-OCT-98	PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN TWIN-HANDLED VASES, attributed to Jacob Petit, the reserves to Auguste Darte, second quarter 19th century, each with a salmon ground decorated with shells and swags, the deep green ground body centered by a well painted bucolic reserve, all within raised gold arabesques, the base similarly executed, small chip to one rim restruck, h. 16-1/4", w. 10", d. 6". $3500/5000 New Orleans Auction Galleries22-MAY-99
A Paris porcelain cylindrical mug,+ with a canary yellow ground, the exterior painted with a classical figure about to sacrifice a maiden, and with pink, purple and blue scrolling foliage, the border with a gilt design, a red 'Darte' printed mark, 1st half 19th. century, (a crack to the base of the handle) 3.25in. (8.5cm.)Woolley & Wallis  £100-150  07-SEP-99	A PARIS PORCELAIN COFFEE POT, MILK JUG, CUP AND SAUCER, each piece painted in colours with oval panels of figures in landscape settings, reserved within gilt surrounds on blue and gilt grounds, ht. 8.5" - 21.6 cm., painted .. in underglaze blue, saucer printed DARTE - Pal Royale - No21 in red, c.1820 $600-800 Waddington's 29-NOV-99
A Fine Pair of Darte Freres, Paris, Covered Footed Porcelain Sauce Tureens, c. 1810-1815, with well-painted floral and fruit reserves, on a bleu du Roi ground, lion masque handles, the opulent gilding in excellent condition, one example marked on the base in overglaze rougede-fer: DARTE/PALAIS ROYAL/ No. 21, height 7.25in., diameter 5.75in. E1500-2500	PARIS (porcelaine) GRANDE TASSE en forme de coquillage à PARIS (porcelaine) GRANDE TASSE en forme de coquillage à anse et base à l’imitation du corail, et son présentoir en forme de coquille Saint-Jacques, fond de dorure.Début XIXe siècle. Marqué DARTE frères à Paris, au pochoir.(Quelques usures dans la dorure). Longueur présentoir : 16,5 cm.  4 000 F 609s Lot n° : 94 Adjudication : 8 000 FF 11/05/2000 - Paris  Etude Couturier-Nicolay
PARIS (Darte) Tasse et sa sous-tasse ovale de forme "rython" formée d’une tête de sanglier décorée bleu et or amati en léger relief. Marquée. Début du XIXe siècle. (Deux éclats). Diamètre : 17 cm FF 3 000 / 4 000 ¤ 460 / 610 Lot n° : 227 Adjudication : 8 800 FF 12/07/2000 - Paris Etude Beaussant-Lefèvre	Tasse évasée et sa sous-tasse en porcelaine de Darte à Paris à fond bleu nuit ornée en dorure de frises de palmettes et fleurettes, autour d’une grande composition centrale de fleurs polychromes.  (éclat au bord de la tasse). Début XIXe siècle. Haut. : 10 cm. - Diam. : 14 cm.   3 000 / 4 000 FF 450/600 E  Lot n° : 89  Adjudication : 4 200 FF       29/06/2001 - Paris Etude Libert & Castor
Tasse à piédouche et sa sous-tasse, en porcelaine de DARTE FRÈRES à Paris, peinte d’un médaillon polychrome du Roi Louis XVIII, sur fond de dorure orné de frises de feuilles et galons au mat. (réparation à la tasse). Signée. Époque Restauration. Haut. : 12 cm - Diam. : 13,5 cm. 1 200/1 500 F - 180/225 i Lot n° : 151 28/06/2000 - Paris Etude Libert & Castor
AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY PARIS PORCELAIN (DARTE FACTORY) LARGE MOULDED CABINET CUP AND SAUCER LARGE TASSE ET SA SOUS-TASSE EN PORCELAINE DE PARIS (MANUFACTURE DE DARTE) DU DEBUT DU XIXEME SIECLE CIRCA 1804-1824, MARQUE AU TAMPON EN ROUGE DE FER DARTE FRERES A PARIS De forme évasée et renflée à la base, reposant sur un piédouche et munie d'une anse avec un mascaron ailé, le corps composé dans la partie supérieure de trois rangs de feuilles stylisées en relief laissés en biscuit, la partie intermédiaire renflée avec une bande de godrons en relief or et le piédouche avec un rang de godrons plats en relief et en biscuit, l'intérieur avec sur le bord un riche décor composé d'une large guirlande de blé jaune et ocre se détachant sur un fond or, le fond avec une rosace, petites usures d'or.  Cet exemple, d'une qualité d'exécution rare, est à rapprocher de la production nombreuse dans les années 1810, de pièces en porcelaine avec des parties laissées en biscuit et des parties très dorées, qu'ont pu produire entre autres les manufactures de Dagoty et de Darte; voir Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïences et Porcelaines de Paris, XVIII-XIXème siècles, Dijon, 1995, p. 318, no.304 et p. 348, no.333. CIRCA 1804-1824, MARQUE AU TAMPON EN ROUGE DE FER DARTE FRERES A PARIS  600 - 800 Euros  Apr 08, 2002   5003   Christies paris	TASSE A THE ET SA SOUS-TASSE EN PORCELAINE DE PARIS DU DEBUT DU XIXEME SIECLE CIRCA 1804-1824, MARQUE AU TAMPON EN ROUGE DE FER DARTE PALAIS ROYAL No 21 De forme polygonale nervurée, à décor or de rinceaux fleuris se détachant sur un fond bleu lapis, l'intérieur de la tasse à décor or d'une frise d'arabesques feuillagée, d'un large filet or et d'une rosace au fond, petites usures d'or à la sous-tasse AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY PARIS PORCELAIN (DARTE FACTORY) POLYGONAL BLUE LAPIS-GROUND TEACUP AND SAUCER Pour une tasse de même forme, décorée dans l'atelier de Deroche, voir Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelaine de Paris, Fribourg, 1972, p.202, no.155.   Eu 300.00 -400.00   CIRCA 1804-1824, MARQUE AU TAMPON EN ROUGE DE FER DARTE PALAIS ROYAL No 21Apr 08, 2002   5003  Christies paris
DEUX TASSES ET LEURS SOUS-TASSES ET UN ENCRIER, SON INTERIEUR ET UN COUVERCLE EN PORCELAINE DE PARIS DU XIXEME SIECLE POUR UNE TASSE, PSEUDO MARQUES IMPERIALES DE SEVRES, POUR LA SECONDE, MARQUES EN ROUGE DE FER AU TAMPON Manufacture de SM L'Impératrice P.L DAGOTY à PARIS Chaque pièce modelée en relief et en biscuit sous les traits d'un cygne, les intérieurs des tasses, les becs des cygnes, les sous-tasses ovales, l'encrier et les rebords enrichis en dorure, petites usures d'or Longueur des sous-tasses: 14,5 cm. (5 5/8 in.) TWO 19TH CENTURY PARIS PORCELAIN SWAN-SHAPE CUPS AND SAUCERS AND A SWAN-SHAPE INKSTAND, LINER AND A COVER (3)   920 - 1,200 Euros Ce modèle de tasse en forme de cygne a eu un grand succès et de nombreuses manufactures parisiennes l'ont produit. Pour un exemple de la manufacture de Darte frères très similaire, voir Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelaine de Paris, Fribourg, 1972, p.184, no.143.   POUR UNE TASSE, PSEUDO MARQUES IMPERIALES DE SEVRES, POUR LA SECONDE, MARQUES EN ROUGE DE FER AU TAMPON Manufacture de SM L'Impératrice P.L DAGOTY à PARIS	A Pair Of Paris (Darte) Gold-Ground Table Centre-Pieces Circa 1820, Red Stencilled Darte Freres A Paris Marks Each in the form of octagonal domed temples with arches divided by marbled columns supporting an entablature surmounted by perched eagles suspending a continuous garland of flowers and fruit, the high gilt ground domes with panels of white stiff-leaf diaper ornament surmounted by ball andfruit finials, the interiors with circular tripod incense-burners, on richly gilt circular stepped plinths edged with a band of white anthemion palmettes divided by stiff-leaf ornament (both incense burners and nine columns restored replacements, three columns of one with chipping to bases and one with restored break through capital, restoration to finials, eagles, entablatures, one eagle's head lacking chipping to interior edges of columns of one and other with restored chipping to steps of base, slight chipping to edge of bases) Approximately 15in. 38cm high 2 A closely related temple was sold, Christie's New York, 21 May 1997, lot 127 ($12,650 E8000-12000 New Orleans Auction Galleries 27/May/2000 Lot No 400
Fine Paris Porcelain Cobalt-blue-ground Partial Tea Set, first quarter 19th century, bearing a rare paper label from the atelier of Darte Freres, consisting of a teapot, h. 6- .75in, cream jug, coveredsugar bowl and two cups and saucers, each richly gilded and displaying classical allegories executed in tooled gold. E5000-8000 Illustrated Waddingtons 30/Nov/1999 Lot No 707	A Paris Porcelain Coffee Pot, Milk Jug, Cup and Saucer, each piece painted in colours with oval panels of figures in landscape settings, reserved within gilt surrounds on blue and gilt grounds, ht. 8.5in 21.6cm., painted .. in underglaze blue, saucer printed Darte / Pal Royale I No21in red, c. 1820 See illustration Est. E600-800 New Orleans Auction Galleries 25/Jul/1999 Lot No 698
Suite Of Four Paris Porcelain Harlequin cabinet plates by Darte, first quarter 19th century, stenciled red mark on underside, each centered by Gothic tracery, bordered in gold, the deep blue band gilt decorated with a different classical motif on each plate, dia. 9.25in E800-1200 Illustrated Christies South Kensington Ltd 25/Feb/1999 Lot No 197	A Paris ( Darte Freres) gilt- ground cabinet cup and saucer with a pierced scroll handle and three paw feet, painted with a hunter returning home to his family, within a rectangular panel, the ground burnished with a band of acorns and oak leaves above a band of stylised acanthus, the saucer burnished with a continuous band of oak leaves around a flowerheads, stencil mark, circa 1820 (minor chips to feet and a chip and crack to the saucer) See back cover illustration E300-500 Christies [St James] 02/Nov/1998 Lot No 270
Six Paris Darte Blue-Ground Topographical Plates Circa 1820, Ped Stencilled Darte/ Palais Royale/ No. 21 marks The centres painted with views, named in gilt script on the reverses, edged by a broad gilt band, the borders variously gilt with flowers, foliage, anthemion pendant husks and scrolls between Or line rims, comprising: Notredame. hotel des Invalides. star crack to centre of underside Le palais de la legion d'honneur. restored rim chip at 6.30 o'clock Le palais de justice. inscription scratched, restoration and damage to border at 4 o'clock Cimetire du pre fachaise. slight rubbing to enamels around well and another indistinctly inscribed Menagerie Roi with a colonnaded building with two pavilions restored rim chip at 8 o'clock, star crack to underside of border at 12 o'clock, the inscription almost entirely removed, slight rubbing to well 9in. 23cm diam. 6 E2000-3000 US$3400-5000 Phillips [London] 16/Sep/1998 Lot No 247	A Darte Paris Cabinet Cup And Saucer, Circa 1830, the flared cup with rising scrolled eagle handle, richly decorated and painted en grisaille with stylised grotesques including classical figures on a red ground, below a border of running vitruvian scrolled flowers on a purple ground, divided by thin gold bands, with gilded interior, the saucer with similar decoration, printed mark in red (glaze crack to base of cup and slight wear to gold on well of saucer) 2 E200-300 New Orleans Auction Galleries 18/Jul/1998 Lot No 573
Rare Pair Of Old Paris Porcelain Elliptical condiment Bowls, in the neoclassical style, c. 1815-1825, signed Darte/Palais Royal/no. 21in in rouge-de-fer, h. 1.875in l 10.25in. E500-800 Illustrated Christies [Amsterdam] 24/Jun/1998 Lot No 90	A Paris Porcelain Gilt Polychrome Cabinet Cup and Saucer First Half 19th Century, Marked For Darte Freres A Paris Decorated with sowing farmers in a landscape with agricultural attributes and banded borders, with gilt eagle's head handle, the saucer en suite with a central flower surrounded by bands See illustration p. 31 NLG E800- 1200 US E400-600 Phillips [London] 12/Oct/1997 Lot No 186
A Darte Cabinet Plate, Circa 1820 with a lavish gilt scroll and flower border on a deep blue ground, the full centre painted with a colourful bouquet against a shaded background, 23cm., red stencilled mark Darte Palais Royal No. 21 (slight wear) E130-160 Christies South Kensington Ltd 23/May/1996 Lot No 238	A Paris Darte bleu de roi Empire style cabinet cup and saucer with high scrolled handle, painted with circular panels of Italianate scenes enclosed within heavy gilt swags depending stylised foliage, printed factory mark wear to gilding See illustration E200-250 Sotheby's (London) 27/Feb/1996 Lot No 56
Two Paris Plates Darte factory, circa 1810, each finely painted in the well with a large botanical study of flowers, the first reserved on a dark brown ground, the second on a white ground, the rims with gilt borders of floral scrollwork or stylised flower heads on a dark blue ground, Darte Palais Royal No 21 stencilled in iron-red, one with dot in underglaze blue, 23cm. 9in minor rubbing to one well 2 E1200-1800 Sotheby's (London) 27/Feb/1996 Lot No 57	A Pair Of Paris Plates, Darte factory, circa 1820, each finely painted in the well with a landscape scene, the first depicting a milkmaid milking a cow with sheep and a goat nearby, the second with a bull and two goats and a horseman in the distance, the rims decorated with gilt borders of floral motifs on a dark blue ground, Darte Palais Royale No 21 stencilled in iron-red, dot in underglaze blue on one, 23cm. 9in minor areas of rubbing to edges of wells 2 E1000-1500 Bonhams and Brooks 06/Feb/1996 Lot No 61
A pair of Darte, Paris porcelain bouquetieres and covers, circa 1830 of bucket form with paw feet and upon square bases, painted with reserves of tavern scenes upon a cobalt band gilded with Gothic tracery, 6in. 15.2cm printed mark Darte, Palais Royal no. 21 in red ( damage and repair). 4 E200-250 Christies [St James] 16/Mar/1995 Lot No 382	A Pair Of Paris Darte Green-Ground Bucket-Shaped Pot- Pourri Vases and Pierced Covers moulded with gilt masks and painted with flowers on marble ledges within brown cartouches, the reverses gilt with bowls of fruit, symmetrical scrolls and leaf swags below reeded gilt rims, on gilt square bases one restored, one with star crack to side, gilding worn , stencilled marks Darte Palais Royal No. 21, circa 1810 6.25in. 16cm high 2 E400-600 Phillips [London] 08/Mar/1995 Lot No 149
AN Attractive Pair Of Darte Spill Vases of cylindrical form, each with triple claw feet mounted on a circular base and painted all around with lakeland views, one with a church, the other with a gate house, 14cm., printed Darte Palais Royal No. 21in red 2 E250-300 Christies [St James] 06/Mar/1995 Lot No 109	A Paris White And Gilt Flared Cabinet-Cup, the lower part modelled as a biscuit boars head with gilt eyes tusks and mouth the cup moulded with acanthus leaves and anthemion on a gilt ground below stiff leaves the interior richly gilt and the scroll handle with an eagles head slight rubbing to eagles head and boars snout incised M, circa 1810 perhaps Darte or Pouyat 10cm. high Cf Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, Paris Porcelain p. 192 no 143 and no 199 E300-400 Christies [St James] 06/Mar/1995 Lot No 110
A Paris Gilt Ground Cabinet Cup And Saucer moulded with overlapping stiff leaves and with a biscuit garland of stylized rosettes the cup with seated winged maiden holding the garland and forming the handle on an oval foot very slight rubbing to well of saucer circa 1810 perhaps Darte Cf Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, op. cit., p. 192 no 143 for a cup and saucer with similar overlapping leaves E600-800 Christies [St James] 06/Mar/1995 Lot No 112	Four Paris (Darte) Gold Ground Plates the centres painted with classical figures one with a lady and a putto walking in a landscape inscribed on the reverse L esprit et la Sagesse., another with Calpurnia and Caesar standing before a stone lion in a classical building inscribed on the reverse Calpurine femme de Cesar lui disant de ne point sortie (le Jour qu'il fut assassine), another with a maiden wearing a fur pelt and seated beside Cupid and a putto inscribed on the reverse La Force and another with a seated lady holding a palm and a bridle beside two putti inscribed on the reverse La Prudence within gilt ground borders variously painted en grisaille with lions masks garlands vases cornucopias martial trophies and winged masks one with slight hairline crack and another with very minor rubbing to rim very slight scratching iron red stencilled Darte/Freres/A Paris one with incised T, circa 1820 24cm. diam (4 E2000-3000 Bonhams and Brooks [Knightsbridge] 02/Nov/1994 Lot No 13
A pair of Darte Freres Paris Bouquetieres and Covers, circa 1840 each finely painted with an interior scene of children dressing up against a gilt hooped bucket-shaped body on four paw feet. on a square base, 6.5in. 16.5cm, stencilled orange marks, Palais Royal No. 27 4 E300-400 See Illustration  Christies [New York] 26/Oct/1994 Lot No 296	A Paris ( Darte Freres) Orange- Ground Covered Sauce-Tureen On Fixed Stand) Circa 1815, Iron-Red Stencilled Mark With gilt reclining griffin finial, the oval cover finely gilt with stylized swan drinking from Mountains, scrolling foliage and flowerheads on a wide orange band, the conforming bowl with similar decoration. on a beaded socle tlanked by winged female herms, on a wide oval stand gilt with flowers, anthemion and honeysuckle, raised on six fluted supports terminating in animal paws (cover cracked, base with restored crack, minute chips to griffin ears)-8.5in. (21.5cm.) wide, the stand E800-1 200 Christies [St James] 14/Jun/1994 Lot No 141
A Paris ( Darte) Gold-Ground Portrait Cabinet-Cup and Saucer, the cup painted with a half-length portrait of a royal lady wearing a diamond tiara and a black dress with short white sleeves, on a brown ground within an oval reserve, the gold-ground chased with bands of cornucopiae flowerheads, scrolling foliage and crowns, the lower part of the cup with a band of stiff leaves, flowers, stars and foliage, the high scroll handle with anthemion terminal and the interior of the cup entirely gilt (very minor rubbing to foot of cup and rubbing to saucer), the saucer with iron-red stencilled Darte/Pal.Royal mark, incised G to cup, circa 1810 The portrait perhaps represents Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese or Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples E800-1200   Christies [Amsterdam] 14/Nov/2000 Lot No 137	A Pair Of Darte Palais Royal Paris Gilt Metal- Mounted Chinoiserie Two-Handled Vases 1804-1824, marked in overglaze red Darte Palais Royal No21 The dark blue ground flattened body painted in colours anddecorated with trompe l'oeil cloisonne motifs depicting myriads of flowers, the front with an ogival-shaped cartouche depicting three gallant Orientals, the back with a winged griff in fighting a snake, the handles modelled as winged lion heads, the upright neck and the base with palmettes, on rectangular pedestal base supported by four claw feet, mounted to the top of the handles with scrolls and to the top of the edge with fruit and leaves 37.5cm high 2 E10000-15000 See illustration New Orleans Auction Galleries 18/Nov/2000 Lot No 699
Fine Pair Of Paris Porcelain vases Glacieres, first quarter 19th century, the atelier of Darte Freres,, red stencil mark on underside,each with a tapered lid with gilded rim and monogrammed "Cl", the powder blue border ornamented by anthemions and medallions, the ovoidform containing a liner, the shoulders joined by handles surmounted by busts of crying women, the waist and stem decorated with gilt leaves, on a circular gilt foot, h. 15.75in, w. 10in, d. 7.5in. E900012000 Illustrated   Waddingtons 04/Dec/2000 Lot No 415	Fine Near-Pair of Darte FrEres, Paris, Porcelain Oval Covered Sauce Tureens with Integral Stands, first quarter 19th century, having bleuturquin bands with charcoal and two-color gold figuring, each signed in overglaze rouge-de-fer stencil, h. 8in and 8.25in. E2000-4000 Illustrated   New Orleans Auction Galleries 22/Sep/2001 Lot No 882

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My thanks to the various auction houses and to Carole Mathieu

In the beginning there were three brothers. Coming from Namur, then the Austrian Netherlands, the three Darte brothers, Joseph (1765-1832), Louis Joseph (1766-1843) and Jean François (1768-1834) set up a partnership April 22, 1795 to buy a porcelain factory, at 3 rue de Charonne, in the Fontarabie area, close to the Blvd de Charonne. Joseph, naturalized in 1786, was described as bootmaker, the two other brothers as porcelain manufacturers (Jean François worked then in a factory in the rue de la Pépinière).   André Massonnet, about whom all that is known is that he previously had the factory, sold it for 70,000 francs in assignats, including 30 000 the cash. For this price, Darte got a furnace, ustensils, moulds and goods already manufactured. Then they took the lease of the house belonging to the Cosson, a cabinetmaker. They were young people - the elder one was just 30 years old - intelligent and courageous. The three brothers started a shop at the Palais Royal, then Palais Equality, beside the Café Foy, under the direction of Jean François.

Darte the Elder, rue de Popincourt: a second establishment.  Joseph Darte bought on December 28, 1804 the porcelain factory of Maurice Coeurdassier, 26 rue de Popincourt (currently 14/16, rue de la Folie-Méricourt).

DESCRIPTION each of flared beaker shape, painted with a continuous scene of figures and buildings in a riverscape, the burnished gilt rim tooled with a band of flowers, the base with a beaded border and raised in four gilt paw feet and a rectangular plinth This lot contains 2 item(s). 2,500—3,500 GBP sothebys nov 2002 MEASUREMENTS factory mark stencilled in iron-red, 20.5cm., 8 1/8in., one with small flat chip to edge of plinth, the other with a flat chip and a haircrack to the rim

Lot: 664 A good French part tea and coffee service decorated with Gothic arches and figures in medieval dress beneath gilt tracery gilt interiors comprising eleven octagonal tea cups and saucers eleven flared cylindrical coffee cups with three paw feet and saucers three plates and a slop bowl marked Darte Palais Royale no. 21 c.1850 SOLD October 2002: £2,000

Lot Number 441 Description A Paris porcelain campana vase, painted with a panel of three figures smoking and drinking, on a gilt ground, decorated with flowers and Gothic tracery, red printed mark for Darte, 1st half 19th century, 35 5cm. £350-450 Auctioneer Woolley & Wallis Sale Date 04/09/02

Paire de vases de forme ovoïde à fond bleu mat.
Paris, époque restauration. H 30cm.
Vase sur piédouche à décor de fleurs sur fond bleu.
Paris, frères Darte vers 1804-1824.

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