Lot Essay
The present tray would appear to be the first piece painted by Lamprecht at Sèvres.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOT 25)
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN TRAY (PLATEAU DU ROI)
LATE MAY-SEPTEMBER 1785, SIGNED ON A ROCK LOWER LEFT LAMP.INV.
Details
A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN TRAY (PLATEAU DU ROI)
Late May-September 1785, signed on a rock lower left Lamp.inv.
Of lobed oval form, painted en grisaille with a peasant boy seated at the base of a tree playing a pipe, his dog biting fleas, three ewes, a ram, a lamb, a cow and a bull listening contentedly at the right, the shaped border gilt with trailing vine and scrolls between gilt bands
7½ in. (19 cm.) long
Late May-September 1785, signed on a rock lower left Lamp.inv.
Of lobed oval form, painted en grisaille with a peasant boy seated at the base of a tree playing a pipe, his dog biting fleas, three ewes, a ram, a lamb, a cow and a bull listening contentedly at the right, the shaped border gilt with trailing vine and scrolls between gilt bands
7½ in. (19 cm.) long
Literature
John Whitehead, "Le peintre viennois Georg Lamprecht, Son séjour en France", Mélanges en souvenir d'Elisalex d'Albis 1939-1998, Paris, 1999, pp. 110-118.
Exhibited
Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art, extended loan, R.7114.1.
Sale room notice
The second line should also include the fact that the tray is inscribed in gilt with the Sèvres factory mark of interlaced L's and with the script initials LG, the mark of Etienne-Henry Le Guay. One of the factory's preeminent gilder's, Le Guay worked at Vincennes initially as a painter of friezes 1748-1749. From 1751-1796, his mark appears as that of a gilder, including on some of the factory's morst important productions.
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