Antique French Sevres Handpainted & Gilded Porcelain Neoclassical 8 Piece Tete-a-Tete Tea Set 1900 Mid-Century Modern This very attractive antique Levantine

This very attractive antique Levantine chair has a curved back with a pair of turned ball finials and a central crest inlaid with bone

the Whitney Museum of American Art

The case is hallmarked to the gilt interior with the lion passant mark and the silver purity mark for 875 and the goldsmith's stamp for Hirsch Markowitsch

Following high school he served for four years in the Army Air Forces during World War II

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Antique French Sevres Handpainted & Gilded Porcelain Neoclassical 8 Piece Tete-a-Tete Tea Set 1900 Mid-Century Modern This very attractive antique LevantineSOLD A very fine antique eight piece 'Sevres' porcelain Tete A Tete tea service, Paris, circa 1900. The set having a blue ground with finely hand painted panels of Neoclassical scenes of maidens seated in floral settings and accompanied with cherubs, there are alternate panels hand painted with doves & musical instruments, the hand painted scenes are heightened with raised gilded decoration. The set comprising a lidded teapot, cream jug, covered sugar