A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU FOND TAILLANDIER SMALL SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER (POT A SUCRE 'HEBERT')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O FOR 1767, INCISED OO

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A SEVRES BLEU NOUVEAU FOND TAILLANDIER SMALL SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER (POT A SUCRE 'HEBERT')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter O for 1767, incised OO
Painted in muted earth tones possibly by Jean Bouchet with French landscapes reserved within gilt cisel bands on the blue ground gilt with dotted puce circlets centering a dot and within gilt circles, gilt rims and footrim
3in. (8.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Svend Eriksen, The David Collection, French Porcelain, Copenhagen, 1980, pp. 76, nos. 59-60, for a breakfast service with a sugar-bowl painted by Charles-Eloi Asselin of similar shape, size and decoration as the present example.

Jean Bouchet, recorded at Svres as a painter of landscapes, animals, birds, figures, flowers and as a gilder, 1757-1793.

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