A SEVRES BEAU BLEU CREAM-JUG (POT A LAIT AIGUIERE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
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A SEVRES BEAU BLEU CREAM-JUG (POT A LAIT AIGUIERE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1788, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ROSSET L'AÎNÉ

Details
A SEVRES BEAU BLEU CREAM-JUG (POT A LAIT AIGUIERE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Circa 1788, blue interlaced L's mark, painter's mark for Rosset l'aîné
Of helmet-shape with tall loop handle, painted with a landscape vignette of a shepherd resting before a farmhouse and mountains reserved on the bright blue ground with a gilt ciselé band and below a band of gilt ciselé foliate scrolls suspending garlands, gilt rim
5¼in. (13.7cm.) high
Provenance
The Christner Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November - 1 December 1979, lot 225

Lot Essay

Pierre-Joseph Rosset l'aîné, active at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers, landscapes and patterns, 1753-1799.

See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, cat. no. 131 for a discussion of this late 18th century model, also known in the Sèvres records as a pot à lait buire.

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