A SÈVRES BLEU LAPIS PIERCED RECTANGULAR TRAY (plateau tiroir) painted with a shepherdess and a bagpiper with their flock in an extensive rocky wooded river landscape with a building and rockwork in the distance within a shaped rectangular panel, the ground with gilt vermiculé, the sloping sides pierced with gilt-edged Vitruvian scrolls and husks (minute rim chip to one corner, slight rubbing to gilt vermiculé), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter I for 1761, incised CR

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A SÈVRES BLEU LAPIS PIERCED RECTANGULAR TRAY (plateau tiroir) painted with a shepherdess and a bagpiper with their flock in an extensive rocky wooded river landscape with a building and rockwork in the distance within a shaped rectangular panel, the ground with gilt vermiculé, the sloping sides pierced with gilt-edged Vitruvian scrolls and husks (minute rim chip to one corner, slight rubbing to gilt vermiculé), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter I for 1761, incised CR
24.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, op. cit., p. 306, no. 118 for an example of similar form

This form was first produced with pierced sides in 1757

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