CIRCA 1781, GILT CROWNED INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING INDISTINCT DATE LETTERS, PROBABLY DD, PAINTER'S AND GILDER'S MARKS LB FOR LE BEL AND HP FOR PREVOST, INCISED FR, FADED IRON-RED INVENTORY NUMBER NO (?) 70

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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) MAROON-GROUND CYLINDRICAL CHOCOLATE-POT
CIRCA 1781, GILT CROWNED INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING INDISTINCT DATE LETTERS, PROBABLY dd, PAINTER'S AND GILDER'S MARKS LB FOR LE BEL AND HP FOR PREVOST, INCISED FR, FADED IRON-RED INVENTORY NUMBER n^o (?) 70
Of cylindrical form, painted with flaming hearts and a torch below a laurel wreath, on a plinth with billing doves, roses and a quiver of arrows to the base among clouds, within a gilt scroll and leaf cartouche issuing flowers, the reverse with a gilt urn filled with grapes, peaches and a pomegranate, within a gilt scroll cartouche above crossed palm-fronds tied with a blue ribbon, between gilt ribs, the curved shoulder reserved with a band of S-scrolls painted with flowers and with a short white spout, the side with a socket fitted with a turned ebony handle with a metal collar (cover lacking, chipping to tip of spout and patches of wear to shoulder)
4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm.) high

注意事項

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拍品專文

For a chocolatière of similar form and ground colour see the example from the Thiers Collection in the Louvre, Paris, illustrated by Marcelle Brunet & Tamara Préaud, Sèvres (Fribourg, 1978), p. 203, no. 237.

Jean-Nicolas Le Bell le jeune (later père) was a painter of flowers and patterns active 1765-93.
Henri-Martin Prévost was a gilder active 1757-97.