Sale 6925
London
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5 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 4,660
Estimate
A Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) faience trompe l'oeil dish CIRCA 1760 The shaped octafoil dish painted with four bouquets of flowers and four small sprigs of foliage within a border of scrolling puce lines, the centre modelled with a manganese bunch of grapes on a large green vine leaf surrounded by green pears with puce streaks (slight chipping to rim, stem of grapes restuck with small associated loss, leaf with two chips, three pears with metal replacement stems, one pear broken from dish with part of leaf and restuck, one pear broken through and restuck) Approximately 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) wide
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For a dish with trompe l'oeil walnuts in the Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres, Paris, see Henry-Pierre Fourest, L'oeuvre des faïenciers français du XVIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (1966), p. 292, no. 3.
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