AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND CENTERPIECE

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INTERLACED L'S MARK, SINGED LÉNA

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND CENTERPIECE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS INTERLACED L'S MARK, SINGED LÉNA
The mouth with a rinceau-cast gallery, flanked by winged female herm handles, painted after Boucher with Le Panier Misterieux, the reverse with landscape of a small pond-side village, the interior with a bouquet edged by a flower garland, on gadrooned collar, conforming socle, cast wreath and canted square base raised on four feet
21¼ in. (53.9 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Michel Bloit, Trois Siecles de Porcelain de Paris, Paris, 1988, p. 101 for a very similar centerpiece attributed to Achille et Bloch as part of a garniture. Also see Pierrette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre Gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, vol. I, p. 259, fig. 1031 for an engraving of the present Boucher subject.

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