A SEVRES PORCELAIN APPLE GREEN-GROUND TUREEN AND COVER

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K FOR 1763, PAINTERS DOTS AT JUNCTIONS OF FACTORY MARK FOR ARMAND

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN APPLE GREEN-GROUND TUREEN AND COVER
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K FOR 1763, PAINTERS DOTS AT JUNCTIONS OF FACTORY MARK FOR ARMAND
Of bombé form, supported by four scroll feet issuing leaves and foliate handles, the finial formed as artichokes and an onion, painted with fruit and flowers reserved within gilt foliate cartouches
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Possibly from the service delivered to Henry Bertin, contrôleur général and therefore responsible for the Sèvres factory 1767-1779.
Hermine Feist Collection, Berlin.
The Distinguished Collection of a Lady; Sotheby's, Zurich, 9 December 1997, lot 106.

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Lot Essay

This tureen is possibly from the service acquired in several intervals by Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin who held a number of important positions in the final decades of the Ancien régime including secrétaire d'Etat and contrôleur-général des Finances and administrateur et commissaire du Roi of the Sèvres factory. See D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, vol. II, pp. 349-351.

Pierre-Louis-Philippe Armand is recorded as a gilder and a painter of flowers, birds and patterns at the factory from 1758-1781.

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