A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE PART DÉJEUNER

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A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE PART DÉJEUNER
CIRCA 1770, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS, GILDER'S MARKS FOR LE GUAY, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS

Painted in colours with a family outside a cottage, a shepherd and his sheep, a fisherman, children picking flowers, a boy at a wayside shrine and a youth and a child collecting nuts within gilt line surrounds, the even turquoise ground richly gilt with S and C-scrolls, trellis and foliage sprays, comprising:
A shaped-oval tray, 16in. (40cm.) wide
A teapot and cover (spout restored)
A sugar-basin and cover
A milk-jug on three feet (4)

Provenance

The Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, sale Christie's London, June 28, 1951, lot 112 (120 gns. J. Rochelle Thomas)

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 413a-d

Lot Essay

This type of tray is known as a plateau à rubans

Etienne Henri Le Guay, père gilder at Sèvres, with interruptions, 1749-96

At the time of the Harewood sale the decoration was ascribed to Morin.