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A SÈVRES-PATTERN BLEU CELESTE BOMBÉ-SHAPED BOUGH-POT
Circa 1850
Painted with a portrait medallion of Mme. de Pompadour framed by cherubs with garlands among clouds within a gilt flower and palm-frond cartouche, flanked by garlands suspended from blue ribbon on white bands, the sides moulded with acanthus and the reverse painted with a ribbon-tied cluster of flowers and fruit within a gilt cartouche, on four scroll feet (the base pierced and with associated firing-cracks and hair cracks, chips to feet and to moulded scrolls, hair crack to rim on reverse, gilding worn)
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high
Circa 1850
Painted with a portrait medallion of Mme. de Pompadour framed by cherubs with garlands among clouds within a gilt flower and palm-frond cartouche, flanked by garlands suspended from blue ribbon on white bands, the sides moulded with acanthus and the reverse painted with a ribbon-tied cluster of flowers and fruit within a gilt cartouche, on four scroll feet (the base pierced and with associated firing-cracks and hair cracks, chips to feet and to moulded scrolls, hair crack to rim on reverse, gilding worn)
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high