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    17 - 18 November 1999

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    • A SEVRES JEWELLED OVIFORM TEAP
    Lot 224

    A SEVRES JEWELLED OVIFORM TEAPOT AND COVER

    THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1780, SPURIOUS GILT INTERLACED L'S AND GILDER'S MARK FOR VINCENT, PRE, THE JEWELLING OF LATER DATE

    Price realised

    USD 1,265

    Estimate

    USD 800 - USD 1,200

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    A SEVRES JEWELLED OVIFORM TEAPOT AND COVER
    The porcelain circa 1780, spurious gilt interlaced L's and gilder's mark for Vincent, pre, the jewelling of later date
    The oviform pot with ear shaped handle and flower finial, jewelled with a band of linked foliate scrolls centering flowers enclosed within bands of jewelled beads and leaves
    7in. (19.1cm.) wide, overall

    Provenance

    The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection; Christie's, New York, 21/22 March 1991, lot 286 (as having period decoration)

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    Lot Essay

    Current scholarship has proposed that jewelling similar to that on the present example was executed in the 19th century. A re-evaluation of these pieces, most on a white ground and with traces of jeweller's rouge seeping out from under the foil, has turned up several examples in prominent collections and with spurious marks for the noted gilder Henr-Franois Vincent similar to those on the present example. See Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the Collection of the British Museum, London, 1994, pp. 168-169.

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