A SEVRES RECTANGULAR TRAY (PLATEAU 'A TIROIR A PIEDS')

INTERLACED BLUE L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER E FOR 1757, PAINTER'S MARK OF A DOTTED CROWN FOR SIOUX

Details

A SEVRES RECTANGULAR TRAY (PLATEAU 'A TIROIR A PIEDS')
Interlaced blue L's enclosing date letter E for 1757, painter's mark of a dotted crown for Sioux
The center finely painted in blue with an oval garland of roses tied at intervals with gilt ribbons, the rectangular well with a similar garland within a blue feuilles-de-choux and gilt line border below a gilt dentil rim, the underside with four squat baluster feet with gilt dentil borders
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 February 2003, lot 56

Lot Essay

Cf. Tamara Priéaud and Antoinette Fäy-Hallé, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 1977-78, p. 67, no. 133.

Jean-Charles Sioux, l'aîné is recorded at Sèvres as a painter of monochrome flowers, feathered edges and later of friezes 1752-1792.

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