A SEVRES SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PINK AND GREEN-GROUND EWER AND BASIN (POT A L'EAU TOURNE ET JATTE 'OVALE DE POT A L'EAU')

1759-60, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G A/D PAINTER'S MARK OF A QUAVER FOR CORNAILLES AND INCISED 6 TO BASIN, INCISED A AND FR TO EWER, THE SILVER-GILT MOUNT WITH PARIS DECHARGE MARK FOR 1762-68

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A SEVRES SILVER-GILT MOUNTED PINK AND GREEN-GROUND EWER AND BASIN (POT A L'EAU TOURNE ET JATTE 'OVALE DE POT A L'EAU')
1759-60, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G A/D PAINTER'S MARK OF A QUAVER FOR CORNAILLES AND INCISED 6 TO BASIN, INCISED A AND FR TO EWER, THE SILVER-GILT MOUNT WITH PARIS DECHARGE MARK FOR 1762-68
Painted with loose bouquets of garden flowers within shaped cartouches edged with gilt-edged green foliage borders joined by swags of green gilt-edged husks and within gilt line and dentil rims, the hinged cover of the ewer with three flower garlands within a gilt-edged green foliage surround (the ewer with a minute chip to top of spout and a flake to gilt rim, very slight wear to gilt footrim, the basin with some slight wear to gilt dentil rim on one long side)
The ewer 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high overall, the basin 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

For a full discussion of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. II, pp. 691-718.

Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles was a painter of flowers and gilder at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1755-1800.

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