Live Auction 2645A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age
A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')
Lot 1083

A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')

CIRCA 1780, BLUE AND YELLOW CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS, PAINTER'S MARK GT FOR ETIENNE-JEAN GREMONT AND GILDER'S MARK IN FOR JEAN CHAUVAUX, THE STAND INCISED D 11

Closed21 June 2012

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A SEVRES (HARD-PASTE) PORCELAIN ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')
CIRCA 1780, BLUE AND YELLOW CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS, PAINTER'S MARK GT FOR ETIENNE-JEAN GREMONT AND GILDER'S MARK IN FOR JEAN CHAUVAUX, THE STAND INCISED D 11
Of hemispherical form, the slightly domed cover with pomegranate, leaf and bud finial, the handles pierced and leaf molded, painted with oval cartouches of vases and baskets of flowers on stone ledges, linked by scrolling garlands of flowers and foliage, within elaborate gilt diaper pattern and scroll borders
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) wide, the stand (3)

Scone Palace and Blairquhan; Christie's, London, May 24, 2007, lot 359.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2008, lot 212.

Specialist note

This form was introduced at the factory as early as 1751 and remained popular throughout the 18th century. The bowl was for serving broth or soup, the stand as a bread plate. Crowned interlaced L marks as on the present example were reserved for hard-paste wares made between 1770-1793.

Étienne-Jean Gremont fils is recorded as a flower-painter at Sèvres from 1769-1781, and Jean Chauvaux, le jeune, is recorded as a gilder and painter of patterns, 1764-1800.