TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN SHELL-SHAPED DISHES (COMPOTIERS COQUILLE)
TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN SHELL-SHAPED DISHES (COMPOTIERS COQUILLE)

BLACK INTERLACED L'S, DATE LETTER Z FOR 1777 TO THE LEFT, PAINTER'S M FOR MME MORIN TO THE RIGHT, FOUR DOTS FOR BUTEUX AT THE FOOTRIM

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TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN SHELL-SHAPED DISHES (COMPOTIERS COQUILLE)
BLACK INTERLACED L's, DATE LETTER Z FOR 1777 TO THE LEFT, PAINTER'S M FOR MME MORIN TO THE RIGHT, FOUR DOTS FOR BUTEUX AT THE FOOTRIM
Each trefoil shell painted with scattered fleurs détachées within a blue feuille de choux and gilt line rim
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 22 April 2004, lot 438.

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Lot Essay

Although more than one painter used a mark of a script M and that of four dots, the date letter Z confirms Mme Amable-Christine Morin, active at the factory 1774-1790, as the painter responsible for the bouquets and Pierre-Théodore Buteux, a.k.a. "Théodore" and active 1765-1780, as having both painted the blue feathered border and gilt the rim.

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