BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, INCISED DC, CIRCA 1770

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A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE POINTILLE BOTTLE COOLER (SCEAU A BOUTEILLE, 1ERE GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, INCISED DC, CIRCA 1770
With shell scroll handles enriched in gilt, painted with circular panels of putti enblematic of Astrology and Geometry, each scantilly clad and seated within landscapes reserved on the dotted turquoise ground within a gilt ciselé band and a further reserved ribbon edged in gilt and painted with a berried garland, the ribbon linking reserved panels beneath the handles painted with a berried wreath, moulded gilt rim
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high; 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide overall

Provenance

Almost certainly from the service supplied in 1770 to Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV.
Baron Achille Seillière, Château de Mello; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 March 1911, lot 41 (from a group of seven pieces with the same decoration).
with Manheim Galleries, New Orleans, early 1980's, with another from the same service.
Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, Seattle (the second sceau retained).
with Dragesco & Cramoisan, Paris.

Lot Essay

The present bottle cooler has been confirmed by David Peters as almost certainly from the service ordered in 1770 by Madame du Barry. It will be included in his long awaited book, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, due to be published at the end of this year.

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