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A SEVRES PORCELAIN EWER, COVER AND A BASIN (POT 'A LA ROMAINE A ORNAMENTS' ET UN JATTE 'A FEUILLE DE CHOUX')
Lot 156

A SEVRES PORCELAIN EWER, COVER AND A BASIN (POT 'A LA ROMAINE A ORNAMENTS' ET UN JATTE 'A FEUILLE DE CHOUX')

CIRCA 1777, THE EWER WITH BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L'S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHULOT, INCISED D, THE BASIN WITH PUCE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z FOR 1777 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR BARRAT, INCISED TH M

Closed24 October 2012

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN EWER, COVER AND A BASIN (POT 'A LA ROMAINE A ORNAMENTS' ET UN JATTE 'A FEUILLE DE CHOUX')
CIRCA 1777, THE EWER WITH BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED L'S AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR CHULOT, INCISED D, THE BASIN WITH PUCE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z FOR 1777 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR BARRAT, INCISED TH M
Each rocaille molded, the rims and moldings enriched in gilt, finely painted with floral garlands, wreaths and sprays, the hard-paste ewer with shell thumb-rest, its scroll handle terminating in gilt bulrushes, its front painted with an amatory trophy including a scroll labeled PASTOR FIDO
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) long, the basin (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2000, lot 40.

Specialist note

Although these two pieces are associated, the forms and style of decoration belong together. The date of conception of this shape, the epitome of the Louis XV style, by Jean-Claude Duplessis père is known by a letter from Hendrick van Hulst to Boileau, 26 October 1751: "...je n'ai nulle idée de la forme que le petit croquis indique des pots la romaine de M. du Plessis..." In the list of molds contained in the stock list of October 1752, the molds for this shape were valued at 10 livres-- a very high price. Ewers and basins in biscuit were valued at 27 livres and decorated they sold for prices ranging from 144 to 480 livres. For other examples, compare S. Eriksen and G. De Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, pp. 284-5, no. 98 and Vincennes & Sevres Porcelain from a New England Collection; Christie's, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 9.

Louis-Gabriel Chulot is recorded as a painter of trophies, flowers and patterns at Sèvres from 1755-1900.