A FRENCH ROYAL ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND

CIRCA 1725-30

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A FRENCH ROYAL ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND
Circa 1725-30
En suite with the preceding lots, with a pair of ear-shaped handles and a flowerhead knop, the arms shown once on the body and once in the stand's center, the stand's reverse decorated with four famille verte flower sprigs
5 1/8in. (13cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

This elegant shape was also made in the 1730's at Saint-Cloud, the French porcelain factory under the patronage of the Regent d'Orléans, and was clearly part of the fashionable repertoire at the time. See d'Albis et al, The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, p. 181

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