A SEVRES LARGE ARMORIAL PUNCH-BOWL (Jatte à punch) painted with crowned arms accollé probably of Cassagnet de Fimacon and Mazabe de Bobigny on an escutcheon issuant with trailing foliage, a crowned escutcheon bearing the monogram LF, putti with martial trophies among clouds within a gilt mirror-shaped cartouche and with three panels of birds in landscape vignettes within gilt rococo-scroll cartouches entwined with foliage, all linked by gilt foliage scrolls, the interior with scattered flower-sprays beneath a blue feuilles-de-choux and gilt line rim, (extended firing crack about 13.5cm. long and associated slight chip, some scratching), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter E for 1757

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A SEVRES LARGE ARMORIAL PUNCH-BOWL (Jatte à punch) painted with crowned arms accollé probably of Cassagnet de Fimacon and Mazabe de Bobigny on an escutcheon issuant with trailing foliage, a crowned escutcheon bearing the monogram LF, putti with martial trophies among clouds within a gilt mirror-shaped cartouche and with three panels of birds in landscape vignettes within gilt rococo-scroll cartouches entwined with foliage, all linked by gilt foliage scrolls, the interior with scattered flower-sprays beneath a blue feuilles-de-choux and gilt line rim, (extended firing crack about 13.5cm. long and associated slight chip, some scratching), blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter E for 1757
13 ins. (33cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The Arms are those of Cassagnet de Fimacon, of Ile-de-France and Armagnac and Mazade de Bobigny, of Paris and Languedoc (see: Pierre-Paul Dubuisson, Armorial des Principales Maisons et Familles du Royaume, Paris, 1757, pp. 88 and 238)

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