Lot 114
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A SEVRES BOWL FROM THE DU BARRY SERVICE
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A SEVRES BOWL FROM THE DU BARRY SERVICE

1771, MANGANESE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER S, PAINTER'S MARK FOR GUILLAUME NOEL, INCISED MARK

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A SEVRES BOWL FROM THE DU BARRY SERVICE
1771, MANGANESE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER S, PAINTER'S MARK FOR GUILLAUME NOEL, INCISED MARK
Of lobed form, the exterior border with a gilt band supporting blue urn-shaped vases issuing bouquets and linked with floral swags suspended from a band of gilt and blue ovolos, the interior with an entwined gilt D and floral B monogram (gilt D on interior almost worn away, border extensively worn, surface scratching and further slight wear)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

This service was acquired by Jeanne (Bécu) Gomard de Vaubernier, comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV and was intended for use at the château de Louveciennes. David Peters records that this was the first service at Sèvres to combine a monogram and neo-classical motifs, see Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), pp. 461-464.

Guillaume Noël was a painter of flowers and patterns at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1755 to 1800.

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