1755-56, ECUELLE AND STAND WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING ENAMEL DATE LETTER C TO BOTH, ALSO ENCLOSING UNDERGLAZE A (?) MARK ON ECUELLE, STAND WITH BLUE DOT, PAINTER'S DAGGER MARK FOR EVANS TO BOTH, ECUELLE INCISED 4, STAND INCISED 2

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A VINCENNES BLEU LAPIS TWO-HANDLED ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND
1755-56, ECUELLE AND STAND WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING ENAMEL DATE LETTER C TO BOTH, ALSO ENCLOSING UNDERGLAZE A (?) MARK ON ECUELLE, STAND WITH BLUE DOT, PAINTER'S DAGGER MARK FOR EVANS TO BOTH, ECUELLE INCISED 4, STAND INCISED 2
Each side of the écuelle painted with exotic birds in wooded landscape vignettes within shaped rococo gilt cartouches with flowering branches, scrolls and diaper panels, one with a gilt snail, against a slightly mottled blue ground, the entwined gilt loop handles with foliage terminals, the domed cover with a fruiting branch finial enriched with gilding and flanked by two similar vignettes divided by gilt bouquets, the lobed border of the stand with three vignettes about two birds in flight at the centre, gilt dentil rims (écuelle with very slight wear to gilt rim, cover with areas of wear to gilt rim and finial, stand with some wear to gilt band at well and very slight wear to surface)
The stand 8¼ in. (21.2 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The écuelle appears to have a date letter A within the interlaced Ls. The blue enamel date letters c on both pieces suggest that Evans re-dated the écuelle at the time of decoration. Étienne Evans was a painter of birds, animals and flowers at Sèvres from 1752 to 1786.

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