TWO SÈVRES LATER-DECORATED TURQUOISE-GROUND SEAUX A LIQUEUERS 'OVAL'

THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS BLUE INTERLACED L'S AND DATE LETTER MARKS, ONE INCISED GAT

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TWO SÈVRES LATER-DECORATED TURQUOISE-GROUND SEAUX A LIQUEUERS 'OVAL'
The porcelain 18th century, the decoration 19th century, spurious blue interlaced L's and date letter marks, one incised GAT
Each with gilt dentil rim, variant shell scroll handles enriched in gilt and painted with large cartouches of fruit and flowers within gilt rocaille, floral and diaper cartouches
12in. (30.5cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Johnson; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 December 1972, lot 17
The Christner Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November - 1 December 1979, lot 190

Lot Essay

Cf. Carl C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection Porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, p.233, fig. 96
The present coolers are particularly fine examples of the type of 19th century English decoration applied to 18th century Sèvres porcelain in the workshop of Thomas Baldock, among others.

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