A PARIS GOLD-GROUND EWER AND NAVETTE-SHAPED BASIN

CIRCA 1795, IRON-RED SCRIPT DE SEVR TO THE BASIN

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A PARIS GOLD-GROUND EWER AND NAVETTE-SHAPED BASIN
Circa 1795, iron-red script De Sevr to the basin
Of neo-classic form, reserved and enameled in bright colors on a burnished gold ground with Berainesque scrolls and animals, the ground further reserved with pink lozenges painted en grisaille with trophies, cover to ewer lacking
13¼ in. (33.7 cm.) long, the basin

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For another example in the collection of the musée nationale de Céramique of similar form, with iron-red stenciled marks for Le Petit Carrousel, the ewer with a hinged cover, and painted with scattered butterflies and gilt with foliate scrolls, see Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et Porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe - XIXe Siècles, Paris, 1995, pp. 178-179, no. 173.

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