PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (LOT 399)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND RETICULATED TRAY (PLATEAU CARRE A JOUR, 1ERE GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H FOR 1760, INCISED GC, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEAUX

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND RETICULATED TRAY (PLATEAU CARRE A JOUR, 1^E^R^E GRANDEUR)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H FOR 1760, INCISED GC, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEAUX
Painted with a musical trophy, the border pierced as harebells and Vitruvian scroll
6 in. (15.1 cm.) square

Literature

C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, no. 99, p. 242.

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Lot Essay

Charles Buteux l'aîné, later père, is recorded as a painter of trophies, figures and flowers at Sèvres from 1756-1782.

For a smaller example of this form painted by Buteux with a gardening trophy, see Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 46.

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