PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION

A SEVRES MUSTARD-POT, COVER AND STAND FROM THE 'SERVICE RUBAN BLEU CELESTE' MADE FOR MME DU BARRY

BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, DATE LETTER Q FOR 1769 AT THE RIGHT, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUILLAT AT THE LEFT

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A SEVRES MUSTARD-POT, COVER AND STAND FROM THE 'SERVICE RUBAN BLEU CELESTE' MADE FOR MME DU BARRY
Blue interlaced L's mark, date letter q for 1769 at the right, painter's mark for Bouillat at the left
The mustard pot of barrel form with loop handle, the flat cover with ranunculous finial, the stand of serpentine oval form, the borders with a flower garland entwined with a turquoise moiré ribbon between gilt bands, an additional trailing flowering vine on the pot (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 5 December 1991, lot 288

Sale room notice

The present mustard pot, cover and stand (not fixed as in the catalogue description) and the pair of triple salts offered as lot 97, each with date letter q for 1769, are from the service purchased by the banker Buffault probably for Madame Du Barry. The note that appears in the printed catalogue under lot 95 should thus apply only to lots 96 and 97, as correctly noted in the electronic version of the catalogue.

FURTHER PROVENANCE
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 5 December 1991, lot 288

Lot Essay

See The Collection of Otto-Charles Zieseniss, Christie's, Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 238 for an identically decorated plate, with date letter q and painted by Tandart, that was identified as likely from the service described in the factory sales records as ruban bleu céleste and ordered by Mme. Du Barry's chargé d'affaires Jean-Baptiste Buffaut. Soon after its delivery, the service was shipped to England by Mme. Du Barry.

Another plate from the service is in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Cf. Frangoise Boisgibault, "Le ruban dans la ciramique, des symbols au raffinements décoratifs", L'Estampille-Objet d'Art, October 2001, no. 362, illus. P. 72, no. 8. A bateau à bigerades from the Pompey Collection was sold Chritsie's, New York, 23 May 2002, lot 62.

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