1768, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, INCISED CIRCLE INSIDE FOOTRIM, INSCRIBED IN BLACK

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A SEVRES BLEU CELESTE CYLINDRICAL JAR AND COVER (POT A POMMADE)
1768, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER p, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ALONCLE, INCISED CIRCLE INSIDE FOOTRIM, INSCRIBED IN BLACK
Painted with ornithological studies of birds among branches and grasses after Buffon, named with their common French names plongeon D'amerique and manaquin des judes within gilt oval cartouches reserved against a gilt band with meandering berried leaves, below a dentil rim, the slightly domed cover with a pompom finial, the border gilt with swags of berried leaves (minor flaking to gilt rim)
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high

Provenance

With Vandermeersch, Paris.

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Lot Essay

For a pair of similar pomade pots and covers, probably from the same set see the René Fribourg Collection, sale Sotheby's, London, Part I, 25 June 1963, lot 50. François-Joseph Aloncle was a painter of birds, animals and landscapes at Sèvres active from 1758 to 1781.

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