CIRCA 1720-1740, BLUE ST CL T MARK TO THE SUGAR-BOWL

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A SAINT-CLOUD TRIPLE SPICE-BOX AND COVER AND RIBBED SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
Circa 1720-1740, blue S^T C^L T mark to the sugar-bowl
Each painted in blue with Berainesque lappets and scrolls, the cruciform spice-box raised on scroll feet, the cover with cauliflower finial, the sugar-bowl with flat button finial centering radiating gadroons, the lower portion of the bowl with similar convex ribs
5½ in. (14 cm.) wide, the spice-box; 3½ in. (8.8 cm.) high, the sugar-bowl (4)

Provenance

Xavier, comte de Chavagnac (crested paper label with illegible collection number inscribed) (the spice box).
With Vandermeersch, Paris (the spice-box).

Lot Essay

See Aileen Dawson, A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museun, London, 1994, pp. 11-22, cat. no. 8; Christine Lahaussois, Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud, La Collection du Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1997, cat. nos. 55, 56, 57; and Bertrand Randot, Ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Factory ca, 1690-1766, New Haven, 1999, cat. nos 68, 69, 70 for examples of the triple-spice box found in the collections of the British Museum and Le musée des Arts décoratifs.

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