A SÈVRES CIRCULAR TWO-HANDLED ÉCUELLE, COVER AND STAND (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond'), the kidney-shaped panels painted with pastoral landscapes including carts, beehives, garden implements, a child in a basket and an easel with a canvas painted with the portrait of a couple within chased gilt bands, the panels linked by trailing gilt foliage, the écuelle with entwined branch handles and the cover with a branch and berried finial (rim chip to stand), incised o to écuelle and xv to stand, probably painted by Vielliard, circa 1765

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A SÈVRES CIRCULAR TWO-HANDLED ÉCUELLE, COVER AND STAND (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond'), the kidney-shaped panels painted with pastoral landscapes including carts, beehives, garden implements, a child in a basket and an easel with a canvas painted with the portrait of a couple within chased gilt bands, the panels linked by trailing gilt foliage, the écuelle with entwined branch handles and the cover with a branch and berried finial (rim chip to stand), incised o to écuelle and xv to stand, probably painted by Vielliard, circa 1765
the stand 19cm diam.

Lot Essay

André-Vincent Vielliard working at Sèvres 1752-90

Écuelles with similar decoration painted by Vielliard sold in these Rooms, 3 December 1984, lot 42, another sold Christie's Monaco, 7 décembre 1987, lot 232 and another from the Collection of 6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, sold Sotheby's, 24 May 1977, lot 2054

For a full discussion of the shape see Rosalind Savill, op. cit., vol. II, C424-49, pp. 642-667

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