A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU CELESTE-GROUND BULB-POTS AND PIERCED LINERS (PIEDESTAL 'A OIGNON')

1760, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H AND PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BUTEUX TO EACH

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A PAIR OF SEVRES BLEU CELESTE-GROUND BULB-POTS AND PIERCED LINERS (PIEDESTAL 'A OIGNON')
1760, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H AND PAINTER'S MARKS FOR BUTEUX TO EACH
Each of bombé square section, painted with trophies of agricultural implements and baskets of fruit and flowers suspended from pink, blue and puce ribbons, within gilt shaped rectangular panels and husks, with pierced cylindrical liners (slight flaking to gilding, one with minute chip to upper rim, very small footrim chip to one liner)
Each 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The piédestal 'à oignon' was produced in 1756 and was still recorded in production in 1773. The pot was filled with water and a bulb (possibly a hyacinth) placed in the top. Rosalind Savill suggests that the different decorations on each side may indicate that the growing bulb was turned daily to prevent its leaning towards the light. For a pair of piédestal 'à oignon' decorated with green ribbons in the Wallace Collection, see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. I, pp. 106-109, no. C230-1.

Charles Buteux l'aîné, later père, was a painter of figures, trophies and flowers at Sèvres between 1756 and 1782.

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