1763, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK PT, INCISED CS

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A SEVRES APPLE-GREEN GROUND MUSTARD-POT AND COVER
1763, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK PT, INCISED CS
Of barrel shape with an ear-shaped handle, painted with a bouquet of trailing flowers including narcisscus and a poppy within an oval reserve edged with gilt flowers and tied palm branches, the upper and lower part moulded with ribs, the flat circular cover with gilt flowers and a yellow and claret carnation finial with gilt leaves, gilt dentil rims (minute wear to inside rim of cover and edge of handle, minute chipping to tips of leaf of finial and underside of cover)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Most probably acquired by Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (d. 1836), for Panshanger, Hertfordshire, or by Thomas, 2nd Earl de Grey (d. 1859) for Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, and subsequently through de Grey's daughter to Panshanger, and at Panshanger until circa 1953, and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

This mustard-pot and cover is perhaps from the service delivered to Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin, holder of important ministerial posts of secrétaire d'Etat and côntroleur-général des Finances, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. III, pp. 349-351, no. 63-3.

Pierre-Nicolas Pithou l'aîné worked at Sèvres from 1759 to 1790 and was a painter of figures and probably flowers.

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