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LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS SEVRES MARKS
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A SEVRES-STYLE TURQUOISE-GROUND COMPOSITE PART DESSERT-SERVICE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS SEVRES MARKS
Variously painted with Watteauesque figures in landscape, birds and flowers within gilt scroll cartouches, comprising:
Three seaux in sizes
Four shaped-square dishes
Two shaped-oval dishes
Two boat-shaped dishes
Twenty-five various plates
Eight saucer-dishes
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SPURIOUS SEVRES MARKS
Variously painted with Watteauesque figures in landscape, birds and flowers within gilt scroll cartouches, comprising:
Three seaux in sizes
Four shaped-square dishes
Two shaped-oval dishes
Two boat-shaped dishes
Twenty-five various plates
Eight saucer-dishes
Provenance
Purchased by Frederick, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) at the sale of Ralph Sneyd's porcelain 1849 and recorded at Spencer House in 1915.
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937.
(IV) (B) SEVRES (REDECORATED AND IMITATION), no. 482. SERVICE, painted with birds, Watteau subjects and cupids on turquoise ground. 'Baldock Sèvres' porcelain decorated in the early 19th century. X.625, 626 & 627.
(IV) (B) SEVRES (REDECORATED AND IMITATION), no. 482. SERVICE, painted with birds, Watteau subjects and cupids on turquoise ground. 'Baldock Sèvres' porcelain decorated in the early 19th century. X.625, 626 & 627.
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