A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE MUSTARD-POT STAND (PLATEAU DE MOUTARDIER ORDINAIRE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTER N FOR 1766, PAINTER'S MARK FOR LEVÉ, INCISED EL

Details

A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE MUSTARD-POT STAND (PLATEAU DE MOUTARDIER ORDINAIRE)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing the date letter N for 1766, painter's mark for Levé, incised el
Painted in colours at each end with loose bouquets within gilt ciselé scroll and flowering foliage cartouches, gilt dentil rim
7¼in. (18.5cm.) long

Provenance

The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 291

Lot Essay

A drawing of the present model of 1753 and that of the barrel form mustard-pot designed to stand on it is retained in the Sèvres archives. See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 2000, no. 139, pp. 270-271 for a reproduction of the drawing and a discussion of the model which was sold both separately and as part of a service.

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