Lot 171
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A SÈVRES LATER-DECORATED GREEN-GROUND EWER (BROC ORDINAIRE)

Details
A SÈVRES LATER-DECORATED GREEN-GROUND EWER (BROC ORDINAIRE)
PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY AND INCISED 4, BEARING INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE LETTER A FOR 1753 AND AN UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, THE DECORATION 19TH CENTURY

Of tapering pear-shape narrowing to a banded neck, the wide mouth with straight back edge, the body painted in colours with a Fête Champêtre in the manner of Watteau reserved within a gilt trellis scroll and foliate surround
--9 5/8in. (23.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, London, 1988, p. 695 for a discussion on this form. The Sèvres archive first lists the ewers of this shape in 1753 and the majority as sold with a white ground and flowers.