BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS EE FOR 1782, PAINTER'S MARK FOR LEVE, ONCE INCISED 1811, THE OTHER INCISED 8

Details

A PAIR OF SEVRES MONTEITHS (SCEAUX A VERRES CRENELEES)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS EE FOR 1782, PAINTER'S MARK FOR LEVE, ONCE INCISED 1811, THE OTHER INCISED 8
Each oval with foliate handles and deeply looped crenelated rim, painted with loose bouquets beneath a blue feuille-de-choux rim edged in gilt, blue-line-and-gilt-dash decoration running along the serpentine foot
12in. (30.5cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 301.
Dr. Henry A. Chase, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1989, lot 84.

Literature

Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection: Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, p. 277, cat. no. 112 A, B.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

See Property from the Estate of the Late Albert Warner, Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 15-16 February 1973, lot 343 for a similar pair of glass coolers, also painted by Levé and possibly originally from the same service.

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