A SEVRES ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE' 3EME GRANDEUR ET PLATEAU 'ROND' 2EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, DATE LETTERS DD BELOW FOR 1781, PAINTER'S MARK FOR SIOUX, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX, LE JEUNE TO BOTH, THE ECUELLE INCISED 43A AND WITH A SQUIGGLE, THE STAND INCISED 1O//

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A SEVRES ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE' 3EME GRANDEUR ET PLATEAU 'ROND' 2EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's mark, date letters DD below for 1781, painter's mark for Sioux, gilder's mark for Chauvaux, le jeune to both, the ecuelle incised 43a and with a squiggle, the stand incised 1o//
The center of the stand with a gilt-seeded rosette outlined in blue centering a berried laurel wreath, the emplacement edged with gilt scallops and purple seeding on a blue ground, the border, exterior of the bowl and cover with concentric scallops of puce seeding forming quartefoil flowers, gilt laurel, and peignés bleu from which is suspended a garland of flowers, gilt dentil rims
4½in. (11.5cm.) high overall and 6 5/8in. (16.8cm.) wide overall, the écuelle; 8¼in. (21.9cm.) diam., the stand (2)

Lot Essay

For pieces of similar date and decoration by Sioux, see the déjeuner from the collection of Joseph and Laverne Schieszler; Christie's New York, 16/17 November 1999, lot 258 and that from the collection of J.P. Morgan in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford: Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, 2000, no. 106.

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