Stand 227- Lidded Bowl on Stand (écuelle ronde
etpfateau rond)
Sevres manufactory, 1764
Painted by Pierre-Antoine Méreaud l'amé
Soft-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding
Bowl and stand both painted underneath
with the blue crossed Is of the Sevres manu
factory enclosing the date letter L for 1764,
and with Méreaud s mark S. Bowl incised
DU and O and the stand, I.Bowl: Height: A^7 /% in. (12.4 cm); Width:
734 in. (19.7 cm); Depth: 6 in. (15.2 cm);
Stand: Height: 1V16 in. (3.9 cm); Diameter:
SV16 in. (21.ι cm)
Accession number 78 .DE.65.a-x
PROVENANCE
Madame Louise of France (youngest daugh
ter of Louis XV), 1764; Mrs. Lyne Stephens,
Norfolk, London, and Paris (sold, Christie's,
London, May 9 et seq., 1895, lot 733, to
William Boore for £130); Mortimer L.
Schiff, New York (sold by his heir John L.
Schiff, Christie's, London, June 22,1938, lot
25); purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Barry Shifman, "A Newly Discovered Piece
of Royal Sevres Porcelain," GettyMusJ 6-j
(1978-1979), pp. 53-56, illus.; Wilson, Selec
tions, no. 33, p. 66-67, illus.; Handbook 1986,
p. 169, illus.; Barry Shifman, "Eighteenth-
Century Sevres Porcelain in America,"
Madame de Pompadour et la floraison des
arts (Montreal, 1988), pp. 118-123; Savill,
Sevres, vol. 2, pp. 648, 800; n. 33d, p. 663;
n. 99c, p. 665; n. 36, p. 804; Sassoon, Vin-
cennes and Sevres Porcelain, no. 16, pp. 81-82,
illus. pp. 82-83; Handbook1991, p. 185, illus.228- Covered Cup and Saucer (gobelet a fait
et soucoupe, deuxieme grandeur)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1760-1765
Soft-paste porcelain; camaieu rose enamel
decoration; gilding
The base of the cup is incised with a reverse
S above a dot.
Cup: Height: 39 /i6 in. (9.1 cm); Width:
5/2 in. (14 cm); Depth: 3 I3/i6 in. (9.7 cm);
Saucer: Height: 1% in. (4.3 cm); Diameter:
75 /8 in. (19.3 cm)
Accession number 87 .DE.134.a-x
PROVENANCE
(?) Isabella Anne Ingram-Shepherd, 2nd
Marchioness of Hertford, Hertford House,I36 FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES
227