1767, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK

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A SEVRES BOTTLE-COOLER (SEAU A LIQUEURS)
1767, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER O, INDISTINCT INCISED MARK
The ends with double foliage scroll handles joined by scrolling foliage, painted in blue with four blue shell-shaped arcs edged with gilt scalloped lines terminating in scrolls suspending garlands of flowers, the ends with bouquets of flowers, the sides with trophies within the arcs, one with an over-turned wine pitcher, a tambourine and two crossed Bacchic thyrsi encircled by grapes and convolvulus, the other with a ribbon-tied basket of grapes and a broken spear, below a gilt dentil rim, the interior with a pierced porcelain divider (minute chipping to handles, chipping to flanges on interior, slight scratches above one trophy, minute areas of wear to gilt rim of divider)
12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Although unmarked, this is almost certainly the work of Charles Buteux (active at Sèvres from 1756 to 1782). The similarities between this and the part service now in the Royal Collection (see 'Sèvres Porcelian from the Royal Collection' H.M. Queen's Gallery Exhibition Catalogue [London, 1979], no. 51) suggest that this, and the following lot, was once part of the same service of which the majority of the remaining pieces are now at the Musée Ephroussi-Rothschild, Cap Ferrat.

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