PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (LOT 402)

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE PLATE (ASSIETE A PALMES) AND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER

18TH CENTURY, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS; THE PLATE WITH SOME DECORATION OF LATER DATE, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX, INCISED 77; THE SUGAR-BOWL WITH DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-4, PAINTER'S MARK FOR XHROUUET PERE

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE PLATE (ASSIETE A PALMES) AND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
18TH CENTURY, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARKS; THE PLATE WITH SOME DECORATION OF LATER DATE, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX, INCISED 77; THE SUGAR-BOWL WITH DATE LETTER A FOR 1753-4, PAINTER'S MARK FOR XHROUUET PERE
The plate with central loose bouquet, the border with three panels of a bird in a landscape reserved within a gilt rocaille cartouche, the sugar bowl painted to both sides with birds in flight similarly reserved
9 5/8 in. (24.2 cm.) diameter, the plate (3)

Literature

C.C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, vol. IV, no. 107, p. 259 (the plate).
Ibid., no. 92, p. 225 (the sugar bowl).

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Lot Essay

Pierre-Théodore Buteux is recorded as a painter and a gilder at the factory from 1765 to 1784.

Philippe Xhrouuet père is recorded as a painter of flowers, patterns, birds, figures and landscapes at the factory from 1750 to 1775.

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