A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE SHAPED OVAL DISH (COMPOTIER OVALE)

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A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE SHAPED OVAL DISH (COMPOTIER OVALE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER S FOR 1771 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE AND INCISED 47

En suite to the preceding, the central panel with two exotic birds perched in a landscape and with oak branch cartouche and plain gilt rim--10¾in. (27cm.) wide

Provenance

Louis-René-Édouard, prince de Rohan
Prince Demidoff, Palazzo San Donato, Florence
The Earl of Dudley, sale Christie's London, 1886...

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 490-B

Lot Essay

François-Joseph Aloncle active at Sèvres 1758-1781

This is one of the twenty-four compotiers différents at 48 livres each