A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN AND COVER

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A SÈVRES BLEU CÉLESTE OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN AND COVER

CIRCA 1785, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK, UNIDENTIFIED PAINTER'S MARK, GILDER'S MARK OF PRÉVOST, INCISED 1·0

On four scroll feet rising to form loop handles and enriched in gilding, the sides with bouquets of fruit and flowers within gilt entrlac bands tied with ribbons and linked by arabesques (extended firing crack through base, minute rim chip to inside of rim)--12¼in. (31cm.) wide

Provenance

Princess Royal and Earl of Harewood, sale Christie's London, June 28, 1951, lot 152 (160 guineas to Rosenberg)

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Arts, 1956, no. 445

Lot Essay

Henri Prévost was a gilder at Sèvres from 1757 to 1797.

This tureen is from a large service sold to the marchands Empaytas et Cie in 1795, though most of the pieces were dated 1788, 1789 or 1791. A large part of the service is in the collection of Stavros Niarchos and illustrated in Les Porcelainiers du 18the siècle français pp. 223-3. A seau à bouteille of 1788 at Waddesdon, one of four in the collection from this service is illustrated by Svend Erickson, Waddesdon Catalogue, no. 113 and Geoffrey de Bellaique, The Louis XVI Service, London, 1986, fig. 18.

We are grateful to Mr. David Peters for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.