1763, BLUE INTERLACED LS MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK M FOR MORIN

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A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND FLOWER-VASE (CUVETTE A FLEURS COURTEILLE)
1763, BLUE INTERLACED LS MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K, PAINTER'S MARK M FOR MORIN
Of bombé shaped-oval form, the front painted with figures of revellers after Teniers around a table of food and drink in a rustic landscape, within an oval gilt tooled cartouche enclosed by gilt elongated C-scrolls, flanked by narrow fluted panels with pendant ribbon-tied floral garlands terminating below in C-scroll feet, the ends with up-turned scrolling acanthus handles, the reverse painted with a loose bouquet of flowers within a concentric double gilt line cartouche (very slight scratching to enamels and flaking to gilding, one foot at reverse with very minor chip to underside)
9¾ in. (24.6 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, G.M., F.R.S.; Christie's, London, 16 March 1970, lot 47.

Literature

Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (London, 2009), Vol. I, pp. 154-155.

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Lot Essay

See the similar pair illustrated by Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain (London, 1988), Vol. I, cat. no. C208-209, pp. 46-48. The scene is also similar to one on a vase hollandois of 1764 in the Royal Collection, see Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (London, 2009), Vol. I, pp. 154-155.

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