FRENCH CERAMICS: SEVRES I39
- Vase (vase a chaine or vase a cote de
melon)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1765-1770
After a design attributed to Jean-Claude
Duplessis pere\ modeled by Michel-Dorothé
Coudray and possibly Roger pere
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu nouveau ground
color; gilding
Painted underneath with the blue crossed
Z's of the Sevres manufactory: foot ring
incised CD and foot incised R.
Height: 1 ft. 5% in. (45 cm); Diameter:
85 /8 in. (22.2 cm)
Accession number 90 .DE.113
PROVENANCE
The Earls of Sefton, Croxteth Hall (near
Liverpool) (sold in the early 1970s); private
collection, England; [Alexander and Berendt,
Ltd., London, 1989].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1990," GettyMusJ 19 (1991),
no. 56, p. 161, illus.
- Tea Service (dejeuner ruban)
Sevres manufactory, circa 1765-1770
Gilded by Etienne-Henri Le Guay
Soft-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding
Tray (plateau ovalepolylobe) painted under
neath with the blue crossed Z's of the Sevres
manufactory and with Le Guay s mark LG
in gold; also bears the original price label
(no price indicated) and incised with an
oval crossed by a line. Teapot (théiere
Calabre) incised with an arrow and an inde
cipherable mark ([?]90i); lidded sugar bowl
(pot ä sucre Cahbre) incised with a square.
One cup (gobelet BouiUard) painted under
neath with the blue crossed Z's of the Sevres
manufactory and with the gilder's mark for
Le Guay, LG, in gold. Second cup incised
with an /"and the same indecipherable mark
as on the teapot. Both saucers (soucoupes)
painted underneath with the blue crossed
Z's of the Sevres manufactory and with the
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