A SEVRES PALE-BLUE AND WHITE BISCUIT PORCELAIN GROUP OF TWO NYMPHS LIGHTING A CAULDRON ('GIRANDOLE DE MILIEU')

CIRCA 1804, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND 'MUSTACHE' MARK FOR 1800-1850, INCISED .3. AN.12 FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY DATE OF MARCH 1804 AND A.B. 7 FF FOR THE MODELER BRACHARD JEUNE, FROM THE MODEL BY BOIZOT OF 1774

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A SEVRES PALE-BLUE AND WHITE BISCUIT PORCELAIN GROUP OF TWO NYMPHS LIGHTING A CAULDRON ('GIRANDOLE DE MILIEU')
CIRCA 1804, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND 'MUSTACHE' MARK FOR 1800-1850, INCISED .3. AN.12 FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY DATE OF MARCH 1804 AND A.B. 7 ff FOR THE MODELER BRACHARD JEUNE, FROM THE MODEL BY BOIZOT OF 1774
Each nymph with her right arm holding a torch aloft to light a central cauldron supported on a column entwined with floral garlands, raised on a blue circular base
19½ in.(49.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Collection of the Late Montague Ely Sainsbury; Christie's, London, South Kensington, 6 July 1999, lot 376.

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Lot Essay

The present group, fired in June 1804 (Messidor an 12), is the only group made that year in blue paste. Produced at a cost of 144 francs, it retailed for 192 francs. The more common examples in white biscuit were about 15 percent less exspensive.

Cf. E. Bourgeois, Le Biscuit de Sèvres au XIIIe Siécle, vol. I, pl. 23, no. 325.

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