Lot 110
110
A SEVRES EWER (POT A LAIT FRAGONARD)
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 1… Read more The following three lots are from a Sèvres part déjeuner with portraits of celebrated inventors, manufactured in 1832 and presented to the King of Thailand in 1861. The service is recorded in the Sèvres archives as follows: Registre V V 2, p. 58, verso line 38, (entré au magasin) Le 31 12 1832 Dej. Portraits des inventeurs célebres fond de platine décor en or peint. 12 tasses et sous-tasses Litron Fragonard (300 francs pièce) 1 théière Litron Fragonard riche (400 francs) 1 pot à sucre Fragonard (300 francs) 1 pot à lait Fragonard de 1817 (300 francs) 1 pot à lait Fragonard de 1820 (300 francs) 1 boite pour (160 francs) Registre V V b12 p. 32 (sortie du magasin) 09 1861 Présent aux deux Rois de Siam
A SEVRES EWER (POT A LAIT FRAGONARD)

1832, PRINTED BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING A FLEUR-DE-LYS, GILT H.16.AL., INCISED SCRIPT JB AND 20 11

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A SEVRES EWER (POT A LAIT FRAGONARD)
1832, PRINTED BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING A FLEUR-DE-LYS, GILT h.16.Al., INCISED SCRIPT JB AND 20 11
Painted with a portrait of TALUS, ATHÉNIEN. within a circular medallion with raised gilding flanked by a platinum-ground band with green-ground roundels inscribed LE COMPAS LA SCIE and TOUR À POTIER within shaded gilt roundels with scrolling foliage and anthemion, the panel edged with stars and dots, the flared rim with a band of shaded gilt oak leaves and scrolling foliage, surmounted by a matt-gilt bull's head issuing the gilt handle, the interior richly gilt, the lower part moulded with gilt gadrooning and a band of stiff leaves, on a gilt flared foot with two concentric bands of anthemion and rosettes and simulated gadrooning (very slight scratch to gilding above bull's head)
9½ in. (24 cm.) high
Provenance
King Mongkut or Rama IV of Thailand
King Chulalongkorn The Great or Rama V of Thailand
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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The shape was designed by Evariste Fragonard who worked for Sèvres from 1806 to 1839.

The portrait presumably depicts Thales, the reputed founder of the Ionic school of philosophy and one of the seven sages of Greece. He was born c. 640 B.C. and apparently reached the age of 90. He visited Egypt where he is thought to have acquired his knowledge of philosophy and mathematics from the priests of Memphis and on his return he was venerated for his wisdom and attainments. He was an improver of astronomy and geometry, and recognised the earth as a spherical body, fixing the revolution of the sun at 365 days.

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