Lot 250
250
A SÈVRES BALUSTER JUG AND COVER (POT À EAU ORDINAIRE)

Details
A SÈVRES BALUSTER JUG AND COVER (POT À EAU ORDINAIRE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S, DATE LETTER G FOR 1759 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR XHROUUET

With loop handle enriched with gilt foliage and painted in colours with a loose bouquet of flowers and fruit and scattered sprays beneath a border of blue and gilt mosaïque pattern edged with gilt scrolls and diaper (cover pierced for mount)--7½in. (19cm.) high
Provenance
The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, Christie's New York, March 21-22, 1991, lot 225

Lot Essay

This pattern, which was used at Sèvres as early as 1756, was made famous by the service given to the Elector Palatine in 1760 and now in the Residenzmuseum, Munich.

Philippe Xhrouuet père a painter at Vincennes and Sèvres, active 1750-1775.