A SÈVRES BLEU CELESTE EWER AND BASIN (Pot à eau à la Romaine uni et Jatte), the ewer of pear-shape on a quatrefoil foot and with foliage-moulded handle, the basin of oval form with lobed ends and a waved rim, painted with garden plants including roses, hollyhocks, auricula, poppies and cornflowers and a basket of garden flowers within gilt oval and kidney-shaped panels, the ground enriched with gilt scrolling flower garlands, the top rim of the ewer with a band of gilt scrolls, the bleu celeste ground to the exterior of the basin stippled in gilt and with gilt trailing berried myrtle (minute chip to top of handle, footrim chip to basin), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters CC for 1780, painter's marks... for Tandart and LG to the basin for Le Guay, incised 2 cx 2 to basin

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A SÈVRES BLEU CELESTE EWER AND BASIN (Pot à eau à la Romaine uni et Jatte), the ewer of pear-shape on a quatrefoil foot and with foliage-moulded handle, the basin of oval form with lobed ends and a waved rim, painted with garden plants including roses, hollyhocks, auricula, poppies and cornflowers and a basket of garden flowers within gilt oval and kidney-shaped panels, the ground enriched with gilt scrolling flower garlands, the top rim of the ewer with a band of gilt scrolls, the bleu celeste ground to the exterior of the basin stippled in gilt and with gilt trailing berried myrtle (minute chip to top of handle, footrim chip to basin), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters CC for 1780, painter's marks... for Tandart and LG to the basin for Le Guay, incised 2 cx 2 to basin
the ewer 23.5cm. high
the basin 36cm. wide

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Tandart working period 1754-1803
Étienne-Henry Le Guay gilder at Sèvres working period 1748-9 and 1751-96

This model is a simplified version of the rococo ewer and basin designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis by 1752. The first version was called 'à ornements'. This version with a flat surface was described 'uni'

Ewers and basins of this model are known to have cost from 144 to 600 livres each, depending on their decoration

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