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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLUE GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')
Lot 199

A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLUE GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS JJ FOR 1786, BLUE PAINTER'S STAR MARK, PROBABLY FOR CATON, INCISED 13 AND 37CC TO THE BOWL, 13 AND 31 TO THE STAND

Closed24 October 2012

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN BEAU BLUE GROUND ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE ET PLATEAU 'NOUVELLE FORME')
BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS JJ FOR 1786, BLUE PAINTER'S STAR MARK, PROBABLY FOR CATON, INCISED 13 AND 37CC TO THE BOWL, 13 AND 31 TO THE STAND
With pomegranate finial and scroll handles, finely painted with mythological views of either maidens and putti or Europa and the Bull, all within chased ribbon-tied oval cartouches flanked by gilt scrollwork suspending floral garlands
9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm.) wide, the stand (3)

With French & Company Inc., New York, 27 October 1955 ($800).
Frederick J. and Anotinette H. Van Slyke; Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 1989, lot 319.

Specialist note

The decoration on this ecuelle closely relates to that of the Louis XVI service, made in 1783, just a few years prior. Part of one of the scenes on the stand is taken from Venus amène Cupidon au secours de Calypso by Charles Monnet. For an engraving of the subject by C.E. Patas, see G. de Bellaigue, The Louis XVI Service, London, 1986. A compotier coquille from this service, also with this Cupid/Calypso subject is in the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Antoine Caton is recorded as a figure painter at the factory from 1749-1797.