A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE VASE (VASE 'OREILLES', 3EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L FOR 1764 AND PAINTER'S MARK POSSIBLY FOR ROUSSEAU

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A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE VASE (VASE 'OREILLES', 3EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter L for 1764 and painter's mark possibly for Rousseau
Of baluster form, the shaped everted mouth extending into side handles painted with an inverted pear-shaped panel of an amorous shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape reserved on the turquoise ground within a gilt seeded rocaille cartouche entwined with a garland, the reverse with a trophy of Love within a similar cisel gilt band
7.1/8in. (18.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Gabriel Rouseau, active at Svres as a painter, 1761-1766, may be the painter who used the mark of a circle enclosing a dot. Rosalind Savill, in her catalogue of the Svres porcelain in the Wallace Collection, London, notes that it is found on pieces dated 1761-1764 which are painted with children, cherubs, pastorals and harbor scenes. The present example would seem to conform to this description.

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