A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BLEU LAPIS TAILLANDIER AND GREEN GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN 1758-1759, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, INCISED T

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BLEU LAPIS TAILLANDIER AND GREEN GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
The porcelain 1758-1759, blue interlaced L's mark, incised T
The pot sucre 'Bouret' et couvercle, 1ere grandeur mounted as a pot pourri vase and cover the the addition of an ormolu pine-cone finial, pierced floral meander as a gallery between cover and bowl, upright leaf-scroll handles issuing from goat-mask terminals, spiral-fluted socle, and bracket-footed square base, the sugar-bowl and cover decorated with alternate spiraling stripes of fond vert pomme and scalloped gilt bleu lapis Taillandier ribbons, gilt dentil rims (2)

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Although the present sugar-bowl does not bear a date letter, it can be precisely dated to 1758-1759, the only years in which this combination of ground colours was produced. See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, vol. II, pp. 615-621, no. C401-6 for a Déjeuner 'Courteille' also decorated with a combination of bleu lapis Taillandier and green.

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