A SÈVRES BLEU LAPIS BORDALU (POT À CHAMBRE OVALE)

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A SÈVRES BLEU LAPIS BORDALU (POT À CHAMBRE OVALE)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I FOR 1761, PAINTER'S SCRIPT N FOR ALONCLE

Each side painted in colours with an oval panel of two exotic birds in a landscape, one in a branch and 'talking' to the other, enclosed within a gilt ciselé band and reserved a ground of alternate bands of gilt trellis on bleu lapis ground and gilt dots on a white ground and enclosed within gilt lines, base ground
8½in. (21.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

François-Joseph Aloncle, active at Sèvres from 1758-1781, specialized in birds and animals.