Lot 266
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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU-FALLOT-GROUND SUGAR-BOWLS, COVERS AND FIXED STANDS (SUCRIER DE MONSIEUR LE PREMIER) AND AN OCTAFOIL DESSERT BOWL (COMPOTIER)

1771, EACH SUGAR BOWL WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S FLANKED BY DATE LETTER S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUILLAT, INCISED B MARKS, COVERS WITH INCISED 8 MARKS, THE FRUIT BOWL INCISED JM MARK

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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU-FALLOT-GROUND SUGAR-BOWLS, COVERS AND FIXED STANDS (SUCRIER DE MONSIEUR LE PREMIER) AND AN OCTAFOIL DESSERT BOWL (COMPOTIER)
1771, EACH SUGAR BOWL WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S FLANKED BY DATE LETTER S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUILLAT, INCISED B MARKS, COVERS WITH INCISED 8 MARKS, THE FRUIT BOWL INCISED jm MARK
Painted with scattered pink roses within a broad blue bands with gilt oeil de perdrix ornament and reserved with coloured bouquets, within a scrolling gilt-edged white frond borders with gilt fan-shaped panels, the domed covers with gilt husk knop finials, gilt band rims (one sucrier with small section of rim broken and restuck and minute rim chip, other with small rim chip, one cover broken through and repaired with associated losses, other with sections of flange lacking, minute wear, the fruit bowl with very slight wear to gilt rim and minute scratches to centre)
The sugar bowls 9 in. (22.8 cm.) wide, the fruit bowl 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm.) wide (3)
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Lot Essay

The present sugar-bowls and dessert bowl are from a service of 66 pieces delivered to Mr. Morgan on 31 December 1771, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), Vol. II, pp. 459-460, service no. 71-6.

Mr. Thomas Morgan was an English china dealer in Arlington Street, London who quit the business the year after this purchase was made.

A similar part service made in 1769 is in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.

Edme-François Bouillat père was a painter of flowers and birds active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1750 to 1810.

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