CIRCA 1795, BLUE SCRIPT SEVRES R.F. MARK, PAINTER'S MARK OF PIERRE AND GILDER'S MARK 2000 OF VINCENT, INCISED 14

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A Sevres revolutionary navette-shaped sauceboat
Circa 1795, blue script Sevres R.F. mark, painter's mark of Pierre and gilder's mark 2000 of Vincent, incised 14
The pierced moulded gilt-edged scroll handle with moulded gilt bean terminals, the sides and handle with a blue band with gilt dots, the body painted with revolutionary emblems within shaped cartouches edged with entwined cornucopiae of fruit, oak branches, a swag of laurel and a gilt line, flanked by scrolling foliage against a pale-beige ground between blue ground gilt dot borders and gilt dentil rims (minute chip to rim and slight rubbing to gilding on handle and lip)
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Masonic imagery (the dividers and tablets) has been combined with imagery typical of early Revolutionary France. The beehive, emblematic of the 'golden age' is coupled with the fasces, the Roman symbol of good government, justice and unity; the Phrygian cap, a popular symbol of liberty (the freeing of a Roman slave would invlove a ceremony in which he was capped), is coupled with laurels, symbolic of victory; a quiver, bow and arrow, emblematic of war, are crossed with a palm frond, emblematic of military victory.

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