Lot 105
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND SEVRES AND MENNECY PORCELAIN ENCRIER
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND SEVRES AND MENNECY PORCELAIN ENCRIER

CIRCA 1760

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND SEVRES AND MENNECY PORCELAIN ENCRIER
Circa 1760
Of cartouche shape, mounted with a Mennecy figure of a shepherdess flanked by two candlearms and three Sèvres rose marbré sugar-bowls (pots à sucre 'Hèbert') in two sizes, on pierced scrolled feet, regilt, the veneer relaid with fillets cut in to the underside to counteract shrinkage
10in. (25.4cm.) high, 18in. (45.7cm.) wide, 12½in. (31.7cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The application of the rose marbré ground was a complicated procedure, involving the application of a blue ground over a fired pink ground and the scraping away of the blue to reveal the pink below in a desired marbled pattern, (Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the Collection of the British Museum, London, 1994, p. 115, no. 103, colour plate 16).

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