A GOLD MOUNTED SEVRES ROSE MARBRE SMALL COFFEE-POT AND COVER (MARABOU)**

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I FOR 1761

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A GOLD MOUNTED SEVRES ROSE MARBRE SMALL COFFEE-POT AND COVER (MARABOU)**
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter I for 1761
Of baluster form, the ivory handle secured with a gold mount, painted in colours in a pear-shaped panel with a landscape of a figure standing by a stream, reserved on the rose marbr ground within a chased gilt band
3.7/8in. (9.8cm)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby & Co., London, 14 March 1967, lot 4
With the Antique Porcelain Company, London
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 61

Literature

Sir John Plumb, "The Intrigue of Svres", House and Garden, January 1986, p.44, illus.

Exhibited

London, Winifred Williams, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, 3-20 July 1978, no. 39

Lot Essay

The shape of the present model is the same as that of a pot lait 'Duvaux' with the handle repositioned. See Tamara Praud and Marcelle Brunet, Svres des origines nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, no. 121 and Svend Erikson, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Svres, Fribourg, 1968, no. 58

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