A SEVRES BLEU LAPIS CAILLOUTE CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONNIERE 'A OZIER TENANT A SON PLATEAU')

CIRCA 1761

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A SEVRES BLEU LAPIS CAILLOUTE CHESTNUT BASKET AND COVER ON FIXED STAND (MARRONNIERE 'A OZIER TENANT A SON PLATEAU')
Circa 1761
Modeled as a dark blue ribbon gilt with caillouté interwoven among the pierced staves of the oval basket, cover and fixed stand, the cover handle as staves bound in blue ribbon
10 5/8in. (27cm.) long

Provenance

Probably one of the pair of "lapis caillouté" marronières sold to the dealer M. Bonnet as part of a dinner service on 28 October 1761 at a cost of 192 livres each [Sèvres Registre, Vy3, fol. 80v].
With Matteo, Paris, 17 May 1955 (130,000 French francs)
By descent to the present owner

Lot Essay

See Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991, cat. no. 12 for a detailed discussion of the model and the variations and permutations in which it was produced. Reference to the two lapis caillouté referenced in the provenance is made in the body of the text and footnote 32.

The form was developed to serve marrons glacé or candied chestnuts, the thick sugary syrup oozing from the basket onto the unpierced stand basin.

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