1766-1772, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS N, O AND T FOR 1766, 1767 AND 1772, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BINET, WEYDINGER AND POSSIBLY FRETA, THREE SEAUX WITH A BLUE X, ONE INCISED A·P·

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Four Sevres two-handled glass-coolers (seaux a verre)
1766-1772, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS N, O AND T FOR 1766, 1767 AND 1772, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BINET, WEYDINGER AND POSSIBLY FRETA, THREE SEAUX WITH A BLUE X, ONE INCISED a·p·
Of circular bucket-shaped form with double blue and gilt scroll handles centred by gilt-edged blue leaves, painted with large and small scattered bouquets of flowers including convolvulus and pink, yellow and mauve roses below a moulded border of three blue lines with gilt foliage at intervals, the flared footrims with blue line and gilt dash borders, gilt line rims (first three with minute areas of wear, last with worn rim and other areas of wear)
Approximately 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high (4)

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Lot Essay

Although the mark on one of the seaux is obscure, it does appear to correspond with the mark currently attributed to Freta. Freta was a flower painter at Sèvres in 1763, and the seaux has the date letter O for 1767, but according to David Peters, Decorator and Date Marks on 18th Century Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1997), p. 35, Freta appears in a number of overtime piecework lists in 1767 and 68.
François Binet was a flower painter at Sèvres from 1750 to 1775, and Léopold Weydinger was both a painter of flowers and patterns and a gilder at Sèvres from 1757 to 1806.

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