FOUR SEVRES CUSTARD-CUPS (POT A JUS) AND COVERS FROM THE COMTE DE CHATELET SERVICE

1767, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS O, VARIOUS PAINTER'S MARKS, ONE PERHAPS FOR FRETA AND ANOTHER PERHAPS FOR WEYDINGER, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

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FOUR SEVRES CUSTARD-CUPS (POT A JUS) AND COVERS FROM THE COMTE DE CHATELET SERVICE
1767, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS O, VARIOUS PAINTER'S MARKS, ONE PERHAPS FOR FRETA AND ANOTHER PERHAPS FOR WEYDINGER, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS
Of baluster form, painted with bouquets of flowers within gilt line panels on a blue-ground with gilt dots reserved with puce dots within gilt line irregular circles, the domed covers with yellow and red carnation finials (one with restoration to handle, one with chip to rim, another with minute chip to rim, one with slight crack to footrim, chip to rim of one cover, slight wear to gilding)
3 in (7.6 cm.) high (4)

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Pots à jus from this service in the collection of Charles Otto Zieseniss were sold by Christie's, Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 223. For further items from this service see Jeffrey Munger et al., The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1992, pp. 191-192, nos. 137-140.

Pierre Freta was a painter of flowers at Sèvres from 1763 to 1768.
Léopold Weydinger, père, was a painter of flowers and patterns and gilder at Sèvres from 1757 to 1806.

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