Details
A Tournai blue-ground armorial ecuelle, cover and stand
Circa 1760, gilt tower marks to all pieces
Painted by Henri-Joseph Duvivier, the lobed circular écuelle with two entwined foliage loop handles, the lower part with moulded gilt-edged foliage, painted with two dogs devouring a boar beside a sportsman in a wooded landscape with a château in the distance, the reverse with a lady and a dog in a similar landscape, the cover with four cartouches of a sportsman and his companion in landscape vignettes and with gilt entwined foliage finial, the lobed circular stand with two entwined pierced gilt foliage handles, the central crowned accolée arms with lion and unicorn supporters surrounded by four similar panels of gallants and companions in landscape vignettes, all within richly gilt shaped scroll, flower and trellis cartouches and with four scattered gilt butterflies (one handle of écuelle with cracks to lower part, the stand with one handle lacking, the other with extended firing cracks)
The écuelle 7¾ in. (20 cm.) wide
