1756, TRAY WITH BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D ABOVE A DOT, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS THROUGHOUT

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A Sevres dejeuner
1756, TRAY WITH BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER D ABOVE A DOT, VARIOUS INCISED MARKS THROUGHOUT
Painted with bouquets of flowers within interwoven apple-green ribbon trellis enclosing small gilt diaper panels, the ribbons edged with gilt line and dot ornament, comprising:

A large shaped quatrefoil tray with an elaborate pierced white, gilt and green palm-frond gallery divided by four pierced green and gilt anthemion palmettes and four panels of green and gilt pierced ovolo ornament, the footrim of the exterior moulded with a green basketweave border (gallery restored between one anthemion and ovolo panel, some minute chipping to fronds, two anthemion palmettes with a fine crack)
An oviform teapot and cover, with an ear-shaped handle, domed cover and gilt and white flower finial (tip of spout with minute chip and small chip to interior with associated small crack, areas of wear to gilding, finial with chipping to leaf terminals)
A circular sugar-bowl and cover, the domed cover with a white and gilt flower finial (bowl with areas of wear to gilding, cover with rim chip and minute chipping to finial)
Four cups and saucers, the cups with interlaced foliate handles (two cups with areas of wear, one with very slight wear, two saucers with slight wear)
The tray 17½ in. (42.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's London, 6th October 1986, lot 251.

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Lot Essay

Another theière calabre decorated with the same pattern and formerly in the Fitzhenry Collection is illustrated by Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, Des origines à nos jours (Fribourg, 1978), p. 150, no. 394. The tray is perhaps the plateau à rocailles first produced in 1755.

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