A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' RETICULATED TRAY (CORBEILLE LOSANGE)
Lot 19The Augustus Collection of Important French and Continental Porcelain, Part I

A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' RETICULATED TRAY (CORBEILLE LOSANGE)

CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C. BUTEAUX L'AINE

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN 'BLEU CELESTE' RETICULATED TRAY (CORBEILLE LOSANGE)
CIRCA 1761, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H, PAINTER'S MARK FOR C. BUTEAUX L'AINE
Of typical form with pierced and scrolled sides picked out in gilt above molded corbeille base, the bleu céleste ground centering a reserve finely painted with a military trophy entwined with flowers and foliage within a gilt ciselé scroll surround and trailing flowers
11 7⁄8 in. (30.2 cm.) wide

Sir Chester Beatty Collection, Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1955, lot 119.
The Evill/Frost Collection, Part III, Sotheby's, London, 16 June 2011, lot 241.

Specialist note

Charles Buteaux l'aîné, later père, is recorded as a painter of figures, trophies and flowers at the manufactory from 1756-1782.