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A SEVRES BLEU MOSAIQUE TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SA COUVERCLE, 5... GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1760, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, PAINTERS MARKS FOR FONTAINE ABOVE AND EVANS BELOW, INCISED 3

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A SEVRES BLEU MOSAIQUE TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SA COUVERCLE, 5^.^.^. GRANDEUR)
Circa 1760, blue interlaced L's mark, painters marks for Fontaine above and Evans below, incised 3
Painted with birds in landscape vignettes, the border with panels of blue and gilt trellis or mosäique edged in gilt and alternate with those of flowers, each edged with delicate gilt foliate scrolls; together with a similarly decorated hard paste plate with only flower decoration, blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter F and with an angles S at one side, passibly for Samson et Cie.
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high; 7 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diameter, the plate (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby, Parke Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 26 February 1975, lot 164 (the teapot).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 1993, lot 345 (the teapot).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1995, lot 164 (the teapot).

Lot Essay

Etienne Evans is recorded at Sèvres as a painter specializing in birds, animals and flowers 1752-1786.

Jacques Fontaine is recorded at Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers, figures, patterns and later cameos and as a gilder 1752-1800.

The decoration on the present teapot, used at Sèvres as early as 1756, is associated a service presented to Carl Theodore, Elector of the Palitinate, in 1760, most of which is retained in the Residenzmuseum, Munich.

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